Vittorio Cotesta

Gebundenes Buch

The Heavens and the Earth

Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese, and Mediaeval Islamic Images of the World

Beschreibung

Vittorio Cotesta's The Heavens and the Earth deals with the images of the world peculiar to the Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese and Medieval Islamic civilisations, each with its own way of conceiving the universe, life, death, society, power, humanity and its destiny, while aspired by a shared universal form of life.

Autor

Vittorio Cotesta is Professor of Sociology at Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Rome). His main fields of interest are Global Society, Human Rights, Modernity, and Civilizations. Among his publications: Max Weber on China. Modernity and Capitalism in a Global Perspective (Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2018); Kings into Gods. How Prostration Shaped Eurasian Civilizations (Brill, 2015); Global Society and Human Rights (Brill, 2012); Global Society, Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (ed.) (Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2013).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 1059g
• ISBN-13: 9789004328495
• ISBN-10: 9004328491
• Artikelnr.: 62062914