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Introduction: The Ways that Big History Works: Cosmos, Life, Society and Our Future
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Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., Rodrigue B. Primus Books, 2017.
LePoire D., Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., Journal of Big History 2025 Vol. 8 No. 3 P. 98–139
Building on foundational work in systems theory, thermodynamics, and evolutionary theory, this paper argues that complexity can serve as a conceptual bridge across disciplines. It explores the role of complexity dynamics in Big History through an integrative theoretical framework that spans physical, chemical, geological, biological, social, cognitive, and civilizational domains. By examining how complexity emerges, ...
Added: November 1, 2025
Korotayev A., Гринин А. Л., Grinin L. E. et al., Философия и общество 2025 № 1 С. 5–41
This article aims to explore the relationship between the development of civilizations and the dynamics of scientific and technological progress. For this purpose, a preliminary study of the dynamics of scientific- technological activity during the life cycle of six civilizations of Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Mesopotamian, Ancient Egyptian, Ancient, Chinese, medieval European and Islamic). ...
Added: June 3, 2025
LePoire D., Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A., , in: Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions.: Springer, 2025. P. 495–525.
This volume, “Navigating Complexity in Big History—Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions” explores the aspects and proposals for periodization of Big History. This includes considering cross-cutting aspects of measuring complexity (e.g., energy, information, or a combination), considering different mechanisms of natural selection, developing a set of criteria to base the evaluation of frameworks, and ...
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Korotayev A., , in: Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions.: Springer, 2025. P. 101–157.
The point that within the Big History the decelerating growth of complexity in the Universe observed after the Big Bang can be contrasted with the accelerating growth of complexity traced on our planet for four billion years after the emergence of life on the Earth has been already noticed on quite a number of occasions. ...
Added: May 12, 2025
Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A., , in: Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions.: Springer, 2025. P. 49–71.
“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy”. These words of Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg undoubtedly deserve attention, although they dramatize the origins of interest in the problems of the Universe. ...
Added: May 12, 2025
LePoire D., Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev, , in: Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions.: Springer, 2025. P. 1–27.
Not so many would argue with identifying complexity as a central concept in Big History and universal evolutionism. It is partly because, perhaps, today, many of us are convinced that not only our world but Universe itself is in a state of major change, and the awareness that we are living in a period of ...
Added: May 12, 2025
Navigating Complexity in Big History. Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic and Biosocial Dimensions
David J. L., L. Grinin, Korotayev A., Springer, 2025.
In the editors’ introduction (Chapter 1), the effort to periodize is placed within the historical context along with considerations from complexity science. Subsequent chapters explore various aspects of periodization and complexity by (a) identifying symmetrical cosmic and biosocial trends, (b) testing rigor and criteria for evaluating periodization, (c) attempting to integrate different approaches through multiple ...
Added: May 12, 2025
Asatryan G., Kalpakian J., Rethinking History 2022 Vol. 26 No. 1 P. 116–118
For a serious academic work, this book is very enjoyable and can be said to have appeal beyond its expected academic readership. It takes analytical categories used to understand the present and looks at how they were applied in the past and how Medieval people, primarily but not exclusively in Europe, understood them. Specifically, the ...
Added: February 22, 2025
М.: Центр гуманитарных инициатив, 2023.
В книгу, посвященную осмыслению феномена цивилизации, включены фундаментальные работы известных философов, внесших свой вклад в исследование проблемы, интерес к которой обусловлен актуализацией размышлений о судьбе цивилизации, культуры, общества в эпоху глобальных перемен. Этим объясняется внимание исследователей к обсуждению планетарного характера цивилизационных изменений, общей динамики мирового исторического процесса и места в нем России. Осевой проблемой, которая ...
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Lukin A., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Востоковедение и африканистика 2023 Т. 15 № 2 С. 234–252
The article analyses the evolution of the concepts of “Orient” and “Oriental Studies” throughout history and offers a new approach to interpreting Oriental Studies as a complex academic field. It also discusses the trajectories of its further development in Russia. The author believes that Oriental Studies should centre upon the degree to which Asian and ...
Added: August 27, 2023
Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, 2022.
The present Yearbook is subtitled Historical and Technological Dynamics: Factors, Cycles, and Trends. Its articles demonstrate different forms, patterns, and modes of evolutionary development of societies and their subsystems both over very long periods (in fact, the whole historical process) and over relatively short time intervals. We believe that without an in-depth analysis of the ...
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Navdaeva M. E., В кн.: НАУЧНО-ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫЕ ДИСКУССИИ: ФУНДАМЕНТАЛЬНЫЕ И ПРИКЛАДНЫЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ. Материалы XXX Всероссийской научно-практической конференции. В 2-х частях Том. Часть 1Т. 1: НАУЧНО-ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫЕ ДИСКУССИИ: ФУНДАМЕНТАЛЬНЫЕ И ПРИКЛАДНЫЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ Материалы XXX Всероссийской научно-практической конференции. В 2-х частях Том. Часть 1.: Ростов н/Д: Южный Университет (ИУБиП), ООО "Издательство ВВМ", 2021.
This article suggests a comparative analysis of the changes in Chinese and Russian civilizational identity under the influence of globalization and Westernization. The article presents the main features of the Chinese civilizational identity and compares the conditions of implementing and the results of free market reforms in Russia and China and their impact on economic ...
Added: October 31, 2022
Abrashkin A. A., М.: Эдиториал УРСС, 2022.
Книга состоит из двух частей. Первая (главы 1–3) служит популярным изложением развития взглядов на структуру Вселенной с древнейших времен до наших дней. Прослежены этапы становления теории Большого взрыва. Природа точки сингулярности выделена автором как главная нерешенная проблема этой теории.
Вторая часть книги носит оригинальный характер. В главах 4 и 5 предложена физическая модель первичного вакуума, который существовал до ...
Added: October 13, 2022
Kara-Murza A., Полилог 2022 Т. 6 № 2 Статья 1
The article continues the study of the issue of the formation of the historiosophical and culturological concept "Russia as the North", born to a large extent in connection with the philosophical understanding of the life and work of the Russian scientist and poet Mikhail Lomonosov. The author believes that a significant contribution to this process ...
Added: October 9, 2022
Kara-Murza A., Полилог 2022 Т. 6
The article examines the issue of the formation of the historiosophical and culturological concept "Russia as the North", born to a large extent in connection with the philosophical understanding of the life and work of the Russian scientist and poet Mikhail Lomonosov. The author believes that a significant contribution to this process of Russian self-identification ...
Added: May 5, 2022
Krukov V. A., ЭКО 2021 № 7 С. 4–7
В этом году 9 июня исполнилось бы 90 лет Валентину Афанасьевичу Коптюгу - академику АН СССР, Председателю СО РАН в самые непростые, штормовые годы новейшей истории нашей страны. Заслуга Валентина Афанасьевича не только в том, что ему ценой колоссальных усилий и напряжения удалось отвести разрушительные процессы от академической науки Сибири, он одним из первых в ...
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Rutkevich A. M., Вопросы философии 2021 № 8 С. 47–67
We offer to our readers the first Russian translation of the chapter “La stupidita” from the book L’oscuramento dell’intelligenza by the Italian Catholic philosopher M.F. Sciacca, who called his teaching Christian Spiritualism. The starting point for him is the ancient idea of measure, understanding the finiteness of existence in relationship with other finite beings and ...
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Safranchuk I., Lukyanov F., Полис. Политические исследования 2021 № 4 С. 14–25
This article develops the concept introduced in The Modern World Order: Structural Realities and Great Power Rivalries (Polis. Political Studies. 2021. No. 3). The core structural element of the current world is defined as a mismatch between material globalization and ideational universalism—the former continuing its ascendance while the latter declines. The material interdependence of actors who ...
Added: August 5, 2021
Kara-Murza A., Вопросы философии 2021 № 7 С. 17–26
The article is devoted to the problems of civilization analysis of Russian history. ...
Added: July 20, 2021
Korotayev A., LePoire D., , in: The 21st Century Singularity and Global Futures. A Big History Perspective.: Switzerland: Springer, 2020. P. 599–620.
This concluding chapter summarizes major findings of the present collective monograph. It traces the emergence of accelerating innovation rates through history and the major historical transformations through the evolution of life, humans, and civilization. It draws on the concepts from physics and evolutionary biology to offer potential models of the underlying mechanisms driving this acceleration ...
Added: November 13, 2020
Maiofis M., В кн.: Укрощение повседневности. Нормы и практики Нового времени.: М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2020. Гл. 3 С. 58–79.
For a long time, Anton Makarenko has been acknowledged as a habitual and conventional figure in studies in history of Soviet children's literature and Soviet pedagogy, and in recent period, in a history of ideologies. However, his works are worth considering within a context of history of intellectuals and history of ideas, and not only ...
Added: November 2, 2020
Velizhev M., В кн.: Укрощение повседневности. Нормы и практики Нового времени.: М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2020. Гл. 1 С. 12–33.
В статье рассматривает критика, адресованная известной концепции "цивилизации", предложенной социологом Норбертом Элиасом. Автор последовательно анализирует контраргументы и показывает, что, несмотря на справедливость многих упреков, работа Элиаса по-прежнему актуальна в контексте современного гуманитарного знания. ...
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Саратов: КУБиК, 2020.
В данном выпуске альманаха публикуются научные исследования ученых различных направлений, значительная часть которых была представлена на Всероссийской научной конференции «Альтернативы человеческого развития в условиях технологической революции», проведенной в городах Саратове и Москве в конце октября 2019 г. ...
Added: October 10, 2020