CONTACTS BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS IN SPACE

IX. CONTACTS BETWEEN CIVILIZATIONS IN SPACE (ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CONTEMPORARIES)

A. AN EXPANSION OF THE FIELD OF STUDY

B. A SURVEY OF ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY CIVILIZATIONS

I. Plan of Operations

II. Operations According to Plan
(a) Encounters with the Modern Western Civilization
1. The Modern West and Russia
Russia's ‛Western Question’
Alternative Russian Responses to the Challenge of Western Technology

2. The Modern West and the Main Body of Orthodox Christendom
The Reception of a Modern Western Culture by the Ottoman Orthodox Christians and its Political Consequences

3. The Modern West and the Hindu World

4. The Modern West and the Islamic World
The Postponement of the Crisis
The Muslim Peoples Military Approach to the Western Question

5. The Modern West and the Jews
6 The Modern West and Far Eastern and Indigenous American Civilizations
7. Characteristics of the Encounters between the Modern West and its Contemporaries

(b) Encounters with Medieval Western Christendom
1. The Flow and Ebb of the Crusades
2. The Medieval West and the Syriac World
3. The Medieval West and Greek Orthodox Christendom
4. The Medieval West and Kievan Russia

(c) Encounters between Civilizations of the First Two Generations

1. Encounters with the Post-Alexandrine Hellenic Civilization
2. Encounters with the Pre-Alexandrine Hellenic Civilization
3. Encounters with the Syriac Civilization
4. Encounters with the Eygptiac Civilization in the Age of ‛the New Empire’
5. Tares and Wheat

C. THE DRAMA OF ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CONTEMPORARIES (STRUCTURE, AND PLOT)

I. CONCATENATIONS OF ENCOUNTERS

II. ROLES, REACTIONS, AND DENOUMENTS

D. THE PROCESS OF RADIATION AND RECEPTION

E. THE CONSEQUENCES OF ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN CONTEMPORARIES

I. Aftermaths of Unsuccessful Assaults

II. Aftermaths of Successful Assaults

(a) Effects on the Body Social
(b) Responses of the Soul

1. Dehumanization

2. Zealotism and Herodianism

The terms imply a clear-cut distinction between rejection and acceptance of the conqueror's êthos, but a closer examination suggests that the distinction is not as clear-cut as it looks at first. The point is illustrated by a consideration of modern japan, and of the careers of Ghandi and Lenin.

3. Evangelism

C. (I), Annex: ‘Asia’ and ‘Europe’: Facts and Fantasies

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