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Book review: Jóhann Páll Árnason: The Labyrinth of Modernity. Horizons, Pathways and Mutations. Lanham – Boulder – New York – London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020, 230 pp.

The symposium on overcoming modernity (kindai no chōkoku) that took place in Tokyo in 1942 has been much commented upon, but later critics have tended to over-emphasize the wartime political context and the ideological ...

Book review on Ľubomír Dunaj – Jeremy C. A. Smith – Kurt Cihan Murat Mertel (eds.): Civilization, Modernity, and Critique. Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory. Abingdon – London: Routledge, 2023,...

In recent decades, the belief in progress that was widespread across the two centuries following the French Revolution has withered away. This article suggests, though, that the diagnosis of the end of progress can be us...

This paper discusses the merits and problems of civilizational perspectives on Japanese history, with particular reference to the task of combining a comparative approach with valid points made by those who see Japan as ...

The preoccupation with the processes of globalization, which has become a key concept in the analysis of the sociocultural condition of postmodernity, has led to a decreased interest in the theory of civilization. The id...

As a field of significant activity for historical sociologists in recent decades, civilizational analysis has produced extensive and incisive works examining Japan as a historical formation of Eurasia. However, the same ...

Any attempt to reaffirm equality as a fundamental democratic value faces two tasks: it must respond to social and cultural changes accompanying the most recent phase of capitalist development, and it must reactivate the ...

Max Weber is an elusive classic, and competing traditions claim his legacy. As in other cases, the interpretation of this classic should take into account formative experiences, historical context and links to older trad...

Taking Lovejoy’s history of ideas perspective, the study compares two central texts of Czech political philosophy: Our currently Crisis of T.G. Masaryk (1895) and the essay of the same name by Karel Kosík (1968) and s...

As an art historian who has long focused on the manifestations of the visual culture of the German-speaking scene in the Czech lands, I have repeatedly encountered the topic of perceiving the “Czechness” and “world...