Civilization, Modernity, and Critique

Ľubomír Dunaj (University of Vienna) Ľubomír Dunaj is University Assistant at the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna and Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is associated editor of Pragmatism Today and published his work in Human Affairs, Berlin Journal of Critical Theory and Polylog. Zeitschrift für interkulturelles Philosophieren. Jeremy C.A. Smith (Federation University Australia) Jeremy Smith is in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community at Federation University. He is author of three research monographs, five coedited books, and articles in European Journal of Social Theory, Current Sociology, Critical Horizons, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Thesis Eleven, Atlantic Studies and Political Power and Social Theory. He is also a Managing Editor of the International Journal of Social Imaginaries (Brill). Kurt C.M. Mertel (American University of Sharjah) Kurt C.M. Mertel is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University of Sharjah. He is the co-editor of three books in critical social theory and his work appears in the European Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Social Criticism and Critical Horizons, among others.

1 Axel Honneth (Columbia University) - Preface. 2 Ľubomír Dunaj (University of Vienna) - Introduction. QUESTIONS OF THEORY AND METHODOLOGY. 3 Suzi Adams (Flinders University, Adelaide) – The Being of the Political and Instituting Doing in Question: Reflections on Jóhann P. Árnason’s Thought. 4 Jiří Šubrt (Charles University in Prague) – Long-term Developmental Processes as an Unintended Consequence of Human Action: Some Theoretical and Methodological Questions of Historical Sociology. 5 Saïd Amir Arjomand (Stony Brook University) – World Regions and the Unpacking of Multiple Modernities: A Pluralistic View of Global Sociological Theory. RE-THINKING THE CONCEPT OF MODERNITY/IES THROUGH THE LENS OF CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS. 6 Peter Wagner (Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Study [ICREA]; University of Barcelona; University of Central Asia) – Ways Out of the Modern Labyrinth: Normative Expectations and Subsequent Social Change. 7 Wolfgang Knöbl (Hamburg Institute for Social Research) – Politics and the Social Imaginary: The Problem of the State – and the Problem of Modernity. 8 Kurt C.M. Mertel (American University of Sharjah) – Situating Jóhann P. Árnason’s Civilizational Analysis within Left-Heideggerianism. MODERNITY IN THE PLURAL: CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS AND THE AXIAL AGE DEBATE. 9 Hans Schelkshorn (University of Vienna) – The Axial Age and Multiple Modernities: Philosophical reflections on the universal claims of European civilization. 10 Hans-Herbert Kögler (University of North Florida) – Traditions of Transcendence. A Hermeneutic Appropriation of the Axial Age Discourse. 11 Christoph Kleine (Leipzig University) and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Leipzig University) – A Secularity Sui Generis? On the Historical Development of Conceptual Distinctions and Institutional Differentiations in Japan. MAKING THEORY CONTEXTUAL THROUGH CIVILIZATIONAL ANALYSIS: PLACE, POLITICS, SITUATEDNES. 12 Armando Salvatore (McGill University) and Kieko Obuse (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) – Overwriting the Orient and the Islamosphere: Religio-Civilizational Imaginaries Via East-West Entanglements. 13 Yulia Prozorova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg) – Religious-Political Problematic in Civilizational Analysis: Reflections on Russia’s Trajectory. 14 Jeremy Smith (Federation University Australia) – Regionality and Civilizations in the Americas: Considerations on Civilizational Analysis in the Context of American Modernities. JÓHANN P. ÁRNASON‘S REPLIES. 15 Jóhann P. Árnason (La Trobe University) – Replies to criticisms and suggestions