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CONTENTS, PREFACE, ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
Contents
Publisher's preface
Preface
First part
Why Is a Dialogue of Civilizations Needed in Our Age?
Relativism As a Corollary to Pluralism
Global Culture or Cultural Globalization?
Second part
What Is Civilization?
Conceptual Varieties
Ethos
Symbolism
Myth, Ritual, and Magic
Ritual and Ritualization
Magic
Contemporary Western Myths, Rituals, and Magic
Time and Traditions
Third part
Modernization and Civilizational Practices
Society and Modernization
The Liberal, Participative Democracy
Fourth part
The Methodology of Civilizational Analysis
Pattern Recognition and Analysis
Annex
A select list of readings
Index
Publisher's preface
The author was one of the guest speakers of the 44th Study Week of the Hollandiai Mikes Kelemen Kör (Association for Hungarian Art, Literature and Science in the Netherlands), held 11-14 September 2003 in Elspeet, the Netherlands. The theme of the conference was: NEW ATLANTIS - Our Present and Future in the Perspective of Our Cultures -. The paper presented by Mr Segesvary can be read in the October-December 2003 issue of the Mikes International periodical (in Hungarian, http://www.federatio.org/mikes_per.html).
At the conference an agreement was reached between Mr Segesvary and MIKES INTERNATIONAL to publish his reach ouvre within Bibliotheca Mikes International. Present volume is the first result of this agreement.
The "Dialogue of Civilizations" was first published in 2000 by the University Press of America. We publish electronically this volume with their permission.
In the same time we also publish the Hungarian translation of the entire volume. The author himself performed the translation.
The Hague (Holland), January 27, 2004
About the author
Born in Hungary, country he left after the 1956 Revolution, Victor Segesvary worked during 25 years with the United Nations in the field of economic and social development. His experiences in Asia and Africa familiarized him with the existence of different human worlds and taught him the necessity of understanding and tolerance in human relations. He obtained a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the Gradute School for International Studies, and a D.D. from the Faculty of Protestant Theology, both at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). His vast knowledge covers such diverse fields as political science, sociology, economics, history, and philosophy as well as the "new" science of comparative analysis of civilizations. He published many books and articles, among them Inter-Civilizational Relations and the Destiny of the West : Dialogue or Confrontation?, reflecting his lifelong experience in the interface of great civilizations; From Illusion to Delusion : Globalization and the Contradictions of Late Modernity, linking the phenomenon of globalization to the dialogue of civilizations; as well as Existence and Transcendence: An Anti-Faustian Study in Philosophical Anthropology, exploring the relationship between biological and cultural developments. Victor Segesvary is chronicled in Marquis' WHO IS WHO IN AMERICA and WHO IS WHO IN THE WORLD.