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Karl Jaspers, The Origin and Goal of History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1953); Shmuel Eisenstadt, Ed., The Origins and Diversity of Axial Age Civilizations
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Le naufrage des civilisations : essai (essai français)
Amin Maalouf de l'Académie française
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Review of 2 books: China’s Economy by Arthur Kroeber & China Chapter in Trade Wars are Class Wars by Pettis & Klein
Arthur Kroeberdwarkeshpatel.com
Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy is another deeply instructive study of the illiberal drift of so many democracies across the globe.3 However, like so many others, Applebaum’s view proceeds from a default assumption that democracy is a discrete system. But that assumption prevents us from understanding democracy as a constantly evolving cultu
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Most important, for globalisation to work as a catalyst of polymathic fertilisation, it must be real. One would assume (or at least hope) that in a ‘decolonialised’ and globalised twenty-first century, the Great Western Bias would have diminished. But it has not. Globalisation is not the proportionate fusion of all or many of the world's cultures a
... See moreWaqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility
So removed had the British now become from their Indian subjects, and so dismissive were they of Indian opinion, that they had lost all ability to read the omens around them or to analyse their own position with any degree of accuracy. Arrogance and imperial self-confidence had diminished the desire to seek accurate information or gain any real kno
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