Profiling Of History Of Huntington's Clash Of Civilizations

Samuel P.Huntington is a famous scholar in the field of national politics research. His particular optic angle to research the history of mankind and the trend of globalization currently is culture and civilization, and it is unquestionable that his theory is a style of particular interpretation of history. His theory about the clash of civilization is wildly concerned and it has provoked the new research and discussion in different optic angle and field. This thesis will systematical expound Huntington's theory in the angle of philosophy of history and examine its success and failure, its advantages and disadvantages all-sided in the research of history of mankind and the trend of globalization currently. At last, we will summarize its use for reference. This thesis is mainly composed of three parts to analyze and evaluate Huntington's theory as following:The aim of the first part is mainly to introduce ideological origins that Huntington's interpretation of history of the clash of civilization produced. We will make it clear that the relation of the criticism and inherit between Huntington's interpretation of history of the clash of civilization and its original interpretation of history of civilization throughout the introduction and analyse of the western interpretation of history of civilization today which representative figures are Spengler and Toynbee.Second part aims at expounding Huntington's interpretation of history of the clash of civilization. This part will detailedly introduce this theory in five parts according to the logical venation of this theory's development. The first part is that Huntington consider that the history of the mankind is the history of the civilization; the second part is that Huntington give prominence to the language and religion in the clash of civilization; the third part is that Huntington think the essential of the global social conflict is the clash of civilization; the fourth part is that Huntington transform his optic angle to the clash of western and American civilization themselves inside in recent years; the fifth part is that Huntington suppose a war which may break out in...