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