w-systems & worldviews

Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:46:12 +0600
Nikolai S. Rozov (rozov@nsu.ru)

Dear Chris and Wsn-ers,
David Richardson (writing for many years on worldviews, Faustian
culture, and taking part in Int. Compar. Stud.Civ.Ass-n) has rised a
question in PHILOFHI on relation between w-systems approach and
worldviews (cultural)analysis. First a wished to defend ws-approach
myself, but maybe some of you respond professionally? Also the
very topic of relations between w-systems and worldviews
(culture, religions, ideologies, etc) seems to be worthy of
discussion in wsn.

best
Nikolai

>To: PHILOFHI@YORKU.CA
>From David Richardson: <karol@earthlink.net>
>
> [...] David Wilkinson and Christopher Chase-Dunn definitely
>avoid analyzing the Greek, Magian, Faustian, Chinese and the other
>worldviews. Perhaps Immanual Wallerstein does the same.
>They stick exclusively to world systems. Is world system merely
>the generous limit in which they have time to work? To take on
>worlviews is too much.

> Or do Wilkinson and Chase-Dunn believe, in essence, a world
>system is independent of worldviews?

> Yours, David Richardson

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