The Comparative Civilizations Review publishes analytical studies and interpretive essays primarily concerned with (1) the comparison of whole civilizations, (2) the development of theories and methods especially useful in comparative civilization studies, (3) accounts of intercivilizational contacts, and (4) significant issues in the humanities or social sciences studied from a comparative civilizational perspective.
Current Number: Number 95: Fall 2026 In Memoriam: Liah Greenfeld
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Guest Editor’s Introduction: Liah Greenfeld and the Future of Comparative Civilizational Studies
Monika Monika Guest Editor
In Memoriam: Liah Greenfeld A Reflection from the President of the Comparative Civilizations Forum
Bibi Pelić
Articles
The First Principles of Chinese Civilization: Relationalism and Pragmatism
Sai Zhang and Yongnian Zheng
Cognitive Foundations of the Absence of Antisemitism in Japan: Towards A Civilizational Perspective
Chikako Takeishi
Children’s Literature as a Site of Cross-Civilizational Analysis: Hong Kong in Crisis after 2019
Faye Dorcas Yung Schwendeman
The “Original Spirit” of Chinese Civilization: Wang Huning and the Indigenization of Reform in Post-Mao China
Chandler Rosenberger
Essays
Liah Greenfeld and Civilizational Dialogue: For Continuing a Legacy
Manindra Nath Thakur
Reflection on Liah Greenfeld’s Influence on My Work: National Consciousness and the Sociological Imagination
Oliver Benoit
Unconventionality in Liah Greenfeld's Thought
Francesco Duina
Liah Greenfeld on Antisemitism as a Defining Characteristic of the Monotheistic Civilization
Efraim Karsh
Was Love Invented in Sixteenth-Century England? A Few Comments on Liah Greenfeld’s Theory of Emotions
Dmitri Panchenko