Spaces, Connections, Civilizations.
Spaces, Connections, Civilizations.

Comments on Debating Civilisations

Summary/Abstract: Jeremy Smith’s Debating Civilisations is the most comprehensive availablesurvey of civilizational approaches in the social sciences. The following remarkswill not aim at a balanced coverage; this is, in other words, not a review,but a selective rejoinder, and it will focus on two kinds of issues: those whereSmith’s contributions to the discussion seem most significant, and those thatcall for critical or qualifying comments.

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