What inspired you to write Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought? I was invited to participate in an international conference on “Antisemitism and the Emergence of Sociological Theory” at ...

A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more. In 2019, Jürgen Habermas—perhaps Europe’s most well-known living philosopher—published his long-awaited Auch ...

The Sociology of Freedom is the fascinating third volume of a five-volume work titled The Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization. The general aim of the two earlier volumes was to clarify what power ...

“It was the rational world of modern civilization that made the Holocaust unthinkable.” Modernity, as the late Zygmunt Bauman noted in his magisterially provocative Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The article examines Shmuel Eisenstadt's claim that Japan constitutes a unique modernity, one that differs fundamentally from Western ...