Almost half a millennium before sociology was born in Europe, Ibn Khaldūn elaborated a «new science», designed to study a subject that was also new: the forms of society and civilisation. Through the use of direct observation, and of a logically guided speculation, Ibn Khaldūn came to identify the universalisable pattern that oversees their cyclical transformations, in an oscillating alternation between the poles of two forms of civilisation.
Ibn Khaldun / Annalisa Verza. - STAMPA. - (2024), pp. 2.47-2.60.
Ibn Khaldun
Annalisa Verza
2024
Abstract
Almost half a millennium before sociology was born in Europe, Ibn Khaldūn elaborated a «new science», designed to study a subject that was also new: the forms of society and civilisation. Through the use of direct observation, and of a logically guided speculation, Ibn Khaldūn came to identify the universalisable pattern that oversees their cyclical transformations, in an oscillating alternation between the poles of two forms of civilisation.File in questo prodotto:
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