Book Review: Civilization,Modernity,and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory

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Árnason JP (1997) Social Theory and Japanese Experience: The Dual Civilization. London: Kegan Paul International.

Árnason JP (2002) The Peripheral Centre: Essays on Japanese History and Civilization. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press.

Árnason JP (2003) Civilizations in Dispute: Historical Questions and Theoretical Traditions. Leiden: Brill.

Árnason JP (2013) Rehistoricizing the Axial Age. In: Bellah R Joas H (eds) The Axial Age and its Consequences. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 366–407.

Árnason JP (2020) The Labyrinth of Modernity: Horizons, Pathways and Mutations. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Elias N (1987) The retreat of sociologists into the present. Theory Culture & Society 4(2): 223–248.

Jaspers K (1953) The Origin and Goal of History. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.