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Genocide, civilization and modernity
The British Journal of Sociology, 1995The intention of this paper is to vindicate the historical sociology of genocide. This project demonstrates important continuities as well as discontinuities in the history of genocide. These findings call into question the thesis of Zygmunt Bauman that the modernity of the Holocaust challenges orthodox approaches to the sociology of morality and ...
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2018
‘Civilization’ enters the self-image of the modern West as an emergent property of an aesthetic community, to which the art object (painting, novel) itself belongs. Enlightenment and sensibility come together in a relation between judgement, feeling and imagination, whereby the gap between subject and object, self and other, can in principle be bridged,
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‘Civilization’ enters the self-image of the modern West as an emergent property of an aesthetic community, to which the art object (painting, novel) itself belongs. Enlightenment and sensibility come together in a relation between judgement, feeling and imagination, whereby the gap between subject and object, self and other, can in principle be bridged,
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2015
There is no doubt that the general public believes that advances are being made in neuroscience and in our understanding of how the brain works. There are numerous reports in the media about the work of civil neuroscientists. As an example, Table 5.1 lists some major articles from the popular science journal, New Scientist, in August and September of ...
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There is no doubt that the general public believes that advances are being made in neuroscience and in our understanding of how the brain works. There are numerous reports in the media about the work of civil neuroscientists. As an example, Table 5.1 lists some major articles from the popular science journal, New Scientist, in August and September of ...
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The Criticism of Modern Civilization
Journal of Economic Issues, 1995(1995). The Criticism of Modern Civilization. Journal of Economic Issues: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 663-666.
Wesley C. Mitchell, Malcolm Rutherford
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Voprosy Ekonomiki, 2008
The article is aimed at providing arguments in favor of the vital role of civil society in the institutional infrastructure of socio-economic development. Civil society is explored both as a social phenomenon and as a theoretical concept. Civilization-based and formation-based characteristics underlying forms and contents of civil society in different ...
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The article is aimed at providing arguments in favor of the vital role of civil society in the institutional infrastructure of socio-economic development. Civil society is explored both as a social phenomenon and as a theoretical concept. Civilization-based and formation-based characteristics underlying forms and contents of civil society in different ...
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Science and Modern Civilization
1961Unlike the slow biological evolution of animal species, measured in terms of millions of years, the phenomenal progress of human civilization, from primitive society to modern times, covers little more than six thousand years. This is all the more impressive when one remembers how erratic the course of human progress has been, with centuries of almost ...
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Anthropology and Modern Civilization
Nature, 1952Elements of Social Organization Josiah Mason Lectures delivered at the University of Birmingham. By Prof. Raymond Firth. Pp. xi + 257 + 11 plates. (London: Watts and Co., Ltd., 1951.) 18s. net.
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The Archaeoastronomy of Modern Civilization
2010The desire to align buildings and recreate the cosmic order in the works of humans is not confined to the past. The desire is universal across the Earth and can be seen within our current societies. It is possible to analyze our present-day civilization much as we have considered earlier civilizations.
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The French and Modern Civilization
Contemporary Chinese Thought, 1999After a thorough classical education, Chen Duxiu (1879-1942) went on to be a pioneering reform writer and activist, leader of the New Culture movement, Dean of the Arts and Sciences at Beijing University, and cofounder of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Modernity, Civilization and the Holocaust
2017Like scientific mass wars, the highly organized and scientifically planned extermination of whole groups of people in specially designed death camps and sealed-off ghettos by starvation, gassing or shooting does not seem entirely out of place in an age of technically advanced mass societies. (Elias 2013: 225) The European civilizing process included,
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