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Civilization and Its Contents

Civilization and Its Contents

Mazlish, Bruce

Paperback

General World HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 0804750831
ISBN13: 9780804750837
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 18 2005
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.58 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Civilization is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Contents traces the origins of the concept in the eighteenth century. It shows its use as a colonial ideology, and then as a support for racism. The term was extended to a dead society, Egyptian civilization, and was appropriated by Japan, China, and Islamic countries. This latter development lays the groundwork for the contemporary call for a dialogue of civilizations. The author proposes instead that today the use of the term civilization has a global meaning, with local variants recognized as cultures. It may be more appropriate, however, to abandon the name civilization and to focus on a new understanding of the civilizing process.

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