Eccentric modernity? An Islamic perspective on the civilizing process and the public sphere
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2397894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Armando Salvatore (0000-0002-6718-7717, Humboldt University, Germany,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55-69 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1368431010394508 |
| OpenAlex | W2084632658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article engages with Johann Arnason's approach to the entanglements of culture and power in comparative civilizational analysis by simultaneously reframing the themes of the civilizing process and the public sphere. It comments and expands upon some key insights of Arnason concerning the work of Norbert Elias and Jürgen Habermas by adopting an 'Islamic perspective' on the processes of singularization of power from its cultural bases and of reconstruction of a modern collective identity merging the steering capacities and the participative ambitions of an emerging urban intelligentsia. The Islamic perspective provides insights into the interplay between civilizing processes and the modes through which cultural traditions innervate a modern public sphere. By revisiting key remarks of Arnason on Elias and Habermas, the Islamic perspective gains original contours, reflecting the search for a type of modernity that is eccentric to the mono-civilizational axis of the Western-led, global civilizing process. While this eccentric positioning entails a severe imbalance of power, it also relativizes the centrality of the modern state in the civilizing process and evidences some original traits of the public sphere in a non-Western context
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Epistemology · Intelligentsia · Islam · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Marx and the end of Orientalism
Chapter 1. Marshall Hodgson's Civilizational Analysis of Islam
Civilizations in Dispute
The Venture of Islam, Volume 1
The Public Sphere
Rethinking World History
Shatibi's Philosophy of Islamic Law
The structural transformation of the public sphere
Marx and the End of Orientalism
The Venture of Islam, Volume 3
Public Islam and the Common Good
Genealogies of Religion
Critique and crisis
The Power of Representation
The structural transformation of the public sphere
Reformation as a General Ideal Type
The public sphere and Muslim identities
Weber and Islam
Repositioning 'Islamdom
Mobile Methods and the Empirical
Civilizational Patterns and Civilizing Processes
The Exit from a Westphalian Framing of Political Space and the Emergence of a Transnational Islamic Public
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |