Цивилизации. Универсалии и самобытность.

The monograph reveals the general content of civilizational theory and its heuristic and methodological significance. Special sections are devoted to the formation of this theory and discussions in which different schools and approaches to the analysis of civilizations collide, using the latest materials from Western (mainly American and English) and Eastern researchers. Civilization appears in the work as a macro-scale sociocultural community, which has its own principles of organization and dynamics. The main problems of the relationship of civilization with religion, state, and secular culture in the history of the East and West are highlighted. The principles, possibilities and limits of civilizational comparative studies are revealed. The analysis of originality is complemented by ideas about the integrity of the world historical process. The modern dynamics of civilization are explored in the context of modernization and globalization. For philosophers, cultural scientists, sociologists, historians, specialists in the field of studying world civilizations.