- Title
- Civilisational analysis and intercultural models of American societies
- Creator
- Smith, Jeremy
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/56444
- Identifier
- vital:2199
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/07256860903003559
- Identifier
- ISSN:0725-6868
- Abstract
- The critical reconstruction of classical perspectives and world history as contemporary civilisational analysis brings a fresh and alternative approach to twenty-first-century social science. It has been a robust basis for the critique of existing conservative scholarship of civilisations of the Samuel Huntington variety. A contentious notion of civilisation remains at its conceptual core, however, despite the uses and abuses of the term 'civilisation' in current-day political discourse. This paper aims to explore how far the critical reconsideration of civilisation goes in achieving intercultural goals. It pays particular attention to the versions of the civilisational paradigm developed by Johann Arnason and Shmuel Eisenstadt and evaluates these against the historical experiences of American civilisations. It is argued that Arnason's approach opens up great potential for intercultural analysis through its hermeneutics of encountering social formations, while Eisenstadt's is still burdened by an 'objectivistic' conceptualisation of civilisations associated with traditional civilisational thinking. The paper concludes that there are pressing reasons, and great potential, for further conceptual clarification in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Relation
- Journal of Intercultural Studies Vol. 30, no. 3 (2009), p. 233-248
- Rights
- Copyright Taylor & Francis
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Arnason; Civilisational analysis; Eisenstadt; Intercultural; The Americas
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