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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Johan Galtung; Sohail Inayatullah |
| ISBN: | 0275957551 9780275957551 |
| OCLC Number: | 36597699 |
| Notes: | Based on a seminar given spring 1989 at the Dept. of Sociology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. |
| Description: | xii, 274 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Macrohistory and Macrohistorians: A Theoretical Framework -- Twenty Macrohistorians: A Presentation -- Ssu-Ma Ch'ien: The Cycles of Virtue -- Augustine: The River to Eternity -- Ibn Khaldun: The Strengthening and Weakening of Asabiya -- Giambattista Vico: Babarism and Providence -- Adam Smith: Self-Love and Love of Others -- George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Dialectics and the World Spirit -- August Comte: The Law of the Three Stages -- Karl Marx: Techno-Economics Stages -- Herbert Spencer: Progress and Evolution -- Vilfredo Pareto: The Unbreakable Cycle -- Max Weber: History as Interplay and Dichotomy of Rationalization and Charisma -- Rudolf Steiner: History as Development toward Emancipation and Freedom -- Oswald Spengler: The Maturation and Decay of Cultures -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Universal Personalization -- Pitirim Sorokin: The Principle of Limits -- Arnold Toynbee: Challenge and Response -- Antonio Gramsci: Hegemony and the Materialist Conception of History -- Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar: Agency, Structure, and Transcendence -- Riane Eisler: Dominator and Partnership Shifts -- Cosmic Gaia: Homeostasis and Planetary Evolution -- Macrohistorians Compared: Toward a Theory of Macrohistory -- Macrohistorians Combined: Toward Eclecticism -- Social Macrohistory as Metaphor for Personal Microhistory -- Social Macrohistory as Metaphor for World Macrohistory -- App. A Chart of the Twenty Macrohistorians -- App. B Pictorial Representations of the Twenty Theories: Ch'ien Ssu-Ma, Augustine, Khaldun, Vico, Smith, Hegel, Comte, Marx, Spencer, Pareto, Weber, Steiner, Spengler, Teilhard, Sorokin, Toynbee, Gramsci, Sarkar, Eisler, Gaia. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Johan Galtung and Sohail Inayatullah. |
Abstract:
Includes information on Asabiya, Augustine, Christianity, decline of civilization, evolution, Gaia, life cycle, metaphors, shape of macrohistory, time, weltgeist, yin-yang, etc.
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