Metanarrative of Civilization or Civilizing Processes?: A Reading of Problematics of Civilization/Culture

Abazari, Yousef; Shariati, Sara; Faraji, Mehdi

doi:10.7508/ijcr.2011.14.001

Metanarrative of Civilization or Civilizing Processes?: A Reading of Problematics of Civilization/Culture

Authors

Yousef Abazari ¹

Sara Shariati ²

Mehdi Faraji ³

¹ Associate Professor, University of Tehran

² Assistant Professor, University of Tehran

³ Ph. D. in Cultural Sociology from University of Tehran

10.7508/ijcr.2011.14.001

Abstract

One of the most challengeable concepts in humanities is concept of “Civilization”. There is no agreement on its definition and orientation. In spite of much literature has been produced on “Civilization”, but everyone has especial approach. Some of them look at the past and realize civilization as a historical phenomenon. Some of them look at the present and realize civilization as a project. Some of them look at the future and think about the end of civilization. In the last group, some thinkers are worry and predict horror and savage and some other thinkers are happy about the end of civilization. Also, some thinkers define civilization as an ideology. In this article, we tried to glimpse these views and conceptualize from problematics of culture/civilization and interpret approaches of civilization.

Keywords

: Civilization/ Culture/ Civilizing Process/ Metanarrative of Modernity/ Civilization as a Research Program

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