Category:Civilizational Analysis
Inspired by the work of John David Ebert, this new section (August 2021) will be dedicated to large scale and integrative human history, including the history of civilization(s).
See also our section on P2P Cycles.
This project will follow three different 'reading' and listening/watching threads.
Introduction
This is a great 3-hour interview with John David Ebert introducing many of the themes around comparative civilizational inquiry:
* John David Ebert on Cultural Immune Systems
Contents
1. The Spengler thread of civilizational analysis, as suggested by John David Ebert. This thread looks at civilizations and how they evolve, or not.
- It starts with the Decline of the West, by Oswald Spengler
- Traces the reactions and updates to his work by Arnold Toynbee for the UK, and Carroll Quigley for the U.S.
- Follows the work on comparative mythology and the evolution of mythology by Joseph Campbell
- The work of Jean Gebser on the five mutations of consciousness, as explained in the Ever-Present Origin
- The work of William Irwin Thompson
2. The thread inspired by the book edited by Sohail Inayatullah and John Galtung, on Macrohistory and Macrohistorians, which introduce authors that look at world history from an integrated perspective
3. The thread inspired by the World Systems Theory as pioneered by Immanuel Wallerstein and others.
Directory
Thread 1: Civilizational Analysis
Oswald Spengler
The Decline of the West
Man and Technics
Arnold Toynbee
A Study of History
Jean Gebser
The Ever-Present Origin
William Irwin Thompson
Pages in category "Civilizational Analysis"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,183 total.
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- A. F. K. Organski's Power Transition Theory
- A.M. Hocart on the Role of Ritual and Mythology in Human Governance
- Accursed Share
- Adam Smith in Beijing
- Adnan Husain on Ibn Khaldun's Theory of Civilization
- Adoption of New Technologies Is Accompanied by an Increase in Energy Use which Trigger Social Transformations
- Adventures of Ideas
- Against the Grain
- Age of Catastrophe
- Age of the Gods
- Age of Trans-Local Self-Organized CoordiNations
- Alexander Bard
- Alexander Bard on Syntheism as the Coming Religion for the Technological Age
- Alexander Chizhevsky
- Alexander Dugin
- Alexander Dugin on Contemporality
- Alexandre Kojeve
- Alfred W. McCoy on the Difference Between Empires and World Orders
- Algorithms
- Alphabet vs. the Goddess
- Alternatives of Social Evolution
- Altruistic Creative Love
- Anacyclosis
- Ancient City
- Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions
- Andre Gunder Frank
- Andre Gunder Frank on the History of Going Beyond Eurocentrism in World Historical Approaches
- Andrew Targowski's Classification of the Civilizational Approaches To Human History
- Annotated Bibliography on the Evolution of Civilization
- Anthropo-Technogenesis
- Anthropocoenosis
- Anthropogaia
- Anti-Empire Civilizational Syllabus
- Anton Hilckman on Feliks Koneczny and the Comparative Science of Civilization
- Apocalypse
- Apocalypticism
- Archaic Consciousness
- Archdisciplinarity
- Archdisciplinary Research Center
- Archtheory
- Arnold Toynbee
- Arnold Toynbee and the Process of Civilizations
- Arnold Toynbee as a Process Thinker and Historian
- Arnold Toynbee on the Process of Civilizational Transition
- Arnold Toynbee on the Rhythms of History
- Arnold Toynbee on the Role of the Internal vs the External Proletariat in Civilizational Change
- Arnold Toynbee on the Unification of the World
- Arnold Toynbee's Theory of War Cycles
- Arthur M. Young on Evolution and the Great Chain
- Arthur Young
- Arthur Young on the Reflexive Universe
- Arthur Young on the Role of the Ego and Self in an Interconnected Universe
- Arts of Memory and the Civilizing Process
- Asabiyyah
- At the Edge of History
- Atechnogenesis
- Atlas of Cultural Evolution
- August Comte on the Law of the Three Stages
- Aurobindo on the Dangers of a of the World-State
- Autobiography of Arthur Young
- Autopoiesis
- Axial Age
- Axial Age and Its Place in the Evolution of Human Consciousness and Culture
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- Battle Between the Cultural Evolutionists and the Cultural Relativists
- Before European Hegemony
- Beyond Orientalism
- Beyond Progressive Interpretations of Human History
- Beyond Religion
- Beyond the Nomadic Egalitarian Model in the Pleistocene Epoch
- Big Asia
- Big Historical Foundations for Deep Future Speculations About Cosmic Evolution
- Big History
- Big History as the Study of All Existence
- Big History Perspective on Evolution
- Biohistory
- Biological Roots of Human Understanding
- Biology and the Transcendent
- Birth of the Gods and the Origins of Agriculture
- Books and Articles on Big History
- Brazilianization of the World
- Breakdown of the Bio-Cultural Interfaces in the European Renaissance
- Brendan Graham Dempsey on the Evolution of Consciousness as Added Dimensionality
- Brian Swimme on the History of Cerebralization in Humanity
- Brief Outline of Civilizational History
- Buckminster Fuller on the Differences Between Class One and Class Two Cultural and Social Evolution
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- Cadell Last on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
- California School of Global Historians on the Great Divergence Explaining European Hegemony
- Carroll Quigley
- Carroll Quigley on How the Evolution of Epistemology Led to Doublethink and Newspeak
- Carroll Quigley on the Seven Phases in the Evolution of Western Civilization
- Carroll Quigley's Civilizational Theory
- Catastrophe Bifurcation
- Catholic Understanding of the Difference Between a Civilization of Love and a Civilization of Death
- Cenozoic Era
- Center for the Story of the Universe
- Central Civilization
- Centralization vs Decentralization Historic Cycle
- Chalice and the Blade
- Challenging the Hegemony in the Late Pleistocene of the Nomadic-Egalitarian Model
- Changes and Cycles in the Scale of Settlements and Polities Since the Bronze Age
- Characteristics of Civilizations
- Characteristics of Developed State
- China as a Civilization-State
- China as a Civilizational State
- China's Civilizational Stack
- Chinese Bamboo Grove Communities in the Warring States Period
- Christian Monasticism and Bioregionalism as Historical Social-Ecological Movements
- Christianity and Human Care
- Christopher Coker on the Rise of the Civilizational State
- Christopher Dawson
- Chronological Approaches and Periodization of Civilizational History
- Chronology of the Ancient Near East
- Circulation of Elites
- Citadel, Market and Altar
- Cities as the Context for the Emergence of Civilization
- City-State
- Civilisational Complexity and Elite Decay
- Civilization
- Civilization and Capitalism
- Civilization and Its Discontents
- Civilization and Violence
- Civilization and War
- Civilization as a Political Concept
- Civilization at the Crossroads of the Scientific and Technological Revolution
- Civilization of the Goddess
- Civilization on Trial
- Civilization Practice Centers - China
- Civilization Research Initiative
- Civilization Research Institute
- Civilization State
- Civilization, Information Technology and Societal Development
- Civilizational AI
- Civilizational Collapse
- Civilizational Complexity and Elite Decay
- Civilizational Essentialism
- Civilizational Memory
- Civilizational Politics
- Civilizational Self-Criticism
- Civilizational States
- Civilizational White Holes
- Civilizationalism
- Civilizations and Historical Patterns
- Civilizing Process
- Civism vs Statism
- Civium
- Civium Project
- Clare Graves
- Clare Graves and His Three Scenarios for the Future of Humanity
- Clash of Civilization and World Community
- Clash of Civilizations
- Climate Change, War and Population Decline in Human History
- Climate of History in a Planetary Age
- Collapse
- Collapse Bias
- Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization
- Collapse of Complex Societies
- Collapsology
- Coming Into Being
- Common Ground Between Aurobindo, Gebser and Wilber
- Commons, Markets and Associations in the European Middle Ages
- Companion to the Life and Thought of Raimon Panikkar
- Comparative History of the Cycles of Intellectual and Philosophical Ideas in Eight Civilizational Spheres
- Comparing Civilizations as Systems
- Comparing Eastern vs Western Civilizational Cores Across Global History
- Comparison of Biological and Social Macro-Evolution
- Complexity in Human Society and Cultural Regimes
- Complexity Thresholds and Complexity Transitions
- Concept of Sovereignty in the Indo-European World
- Concept of Transition
- Configurations of Culture Growth
- Connections Between Energy Use and Leadership Transitions
- Connections between Energy Use and Societal Leadership Transitions
- Consciousness and Transcendence
- Constraint as an Essential Element of Evolutionary Development
- Constraints
- Consuming History of Energy
- Continuities and Transformations in the Evolution of World-Systems
- Cooperative Labor for Wheat vs for Rice
- Core, Peripheral, Semiperipheral as Relational Concepts in World Systems Theory
- Cosmic Evolution
- Cosmic Evolution and Universal Evolutionary Principles
- Cosmic Evolution as the Rise of Complexity in Nature
- Cosmic Evolutionary Philosophy and a Dialectical Approach to Technological Singularity
- Cosmic Evolutionary Theory
- Cosmic History
- Cosmism
- Cosmo-Local Plan for Our Next Civilization
- Cosmo-Localism as a New Model of Civilization
- Cosmogenesis
- Cosmological Myth
- Cosmos
- Cosmos and History
- Cosmos and Transcendence
- Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come
- Cosmotechnics
- Cosmotheandric Experience
- Creating and Transforming the Twentieth Century Through Technical Innovations
- Creative Evolution
- Crisis of Our Age
- Crisis of the Modern World