The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute We are pleased to announce the publication of
Dynamics of Continuity, Patterns of Change Between World History and Comparative Historical Sociology In memory of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt Edited by
BENJAMIN Z. KEDAR, ILANA FRIEDRICH SILBER & ADAM KLIN-ORON 2017. 300 pp. English. Cloth ISBN 978-965-208-224-4 15 × 24 cm
Contents
Preface Benjamin Z. Kedar – On Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt: Opening Remarks Irit Meir – On a Personal Note – My Father Björn Wittrock – A Contemporary Classic: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt’s Research Program and Its Contexts Wolfgang Knöbl – Confronting World/Global History with Eisenstadt’s Civilizational Analysis: Promises and Problems Benjamin Z. Kedar – Cultural Persistence Despite Total Political Collapse: The Role of Elites Yuri Pines – Post-imperial Emperors? Traditional Chinese Political Culture and Its Afterlife Elisabeth S. Clemens – Dynamics of Nation-Building: Benevolence and Liberalism in American Political Development Luis Roniger – Multiple Modernities, World History and the Global Rise of Human Rights Gabriel Motzkin – The Problem of Scale in Comparative History Yuval Noah Harari – Does History Have a Direction? S.N. Eisenstadt: List of Publications (compiled by B.Z. Kedar)
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