Historiography nr. 5

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here you go:


The problem with the theorists of Enlightenment
and
Its impact on Classicality



Whether mainstream sociologists admit or not, there is more to sociology and 
its alleged empirical theories than conventional historiography reveals.  At 
the heart of each theory and at the core of Sociological Theory, there is a 
notion ( a very dear one indeed) about the very structure of civilization 
and its mechanism.  In other words, it seems most of the Big Sociologists 
from Comte to Habermas, Giddens et.al. are working with an exclusive 
civilizational paradigm: a Western paradigm which generates and re-generates 
itself, and in addition has substantial impact on others without relying on 
other civilizational formations ( most of the time such formations are not 
even recognized theoretically; in exceptional cases one takes them in 
historical consideration but their immediate impact is next to nill.)

However, this mono-civilizational paradigm, in my view, suffers from a grave 
misunderstanding ( in relation to the nature of human knowledge 
transmission) and lacks historical endorsement.  What in actual terms is 
needed is a multi-civilizational framework which could accomodate an 
interactive understanding of human ( not just


in geographical or political terms but in homosapinal terms ie as a 
universal phenomenon) civilizational process.

The result of this shift would bring vast empirical results.  The change in 
this level which envelopes the whole notion of Western modernity and its 
alleged enlightening project ( and its sociological collorarly that is 
understood by the theorists of Enlightenment as a unique modern European 
project) would refashion our understanding of modernity.  The more practical 
result would be an enlargement of our vision of modernity's periodicity 
within human civilizational process.  In my view, this would take us to the 
very heart of Classicality and Canonicity in current sociological 
literature- that is fashioned in accordance to this myopic conceptualization 
of civilizational process.













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