Authors : Reza Kavand, Gholamreza Khajesarvi and Reza Samim
Abstract: The main objective of this study is to present a reliable theoretical model in rethinking the concept which is referred as the “West Civilization”. In line with this objective by theoretical correspondence between three approaches of social sciences, philosophy of history and postmodernism, the study proves despite the common perception of the concept of civilization, this word is saddened by unique infrastructure and configuration in any context of time and place. Through, using system of subjective meanings, meanwhile distinction cultural, economic and political infrastructure of Western civilization as a case study, the study uses this sample to demonstrate the preferred theoretical approach, analyzes synchrony of civilization and its specificity. Accordingly, the final output of the study is confronting with the idea of universality of the civilization and the results of that which is considered as civilization coaxial and representing the West civilization as a utopian or desirable situation.
Reza Kavand, Gholamreza Khajesarvi and Reza Samim, 2016. Civilization as an Anthropological Nature: Particularistic Approach to the Contextual Infrastructure of the Western Civilization. The Social Sciences, 11: 1428-1436.