PRISON WRITINGS
The Roots of Civilisation
Abdullah Ocalan, translated by Klaus Happel
PLUTO PRESS
ISBN: 9780745326160 Hardback
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Publication Date: January 2007
Pages: 320pp Size: ROYAL (230x150mm)
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Extracts
Table of Contents
Preface
Translator's introduction
IntroductionSECTION 1: SLAVE-OWNING SOCIETY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF CIVILISATION
1 The birth of civilisation on the banks of Tigris and Euphrates
2 The historical role of Sumerian civilisation
3 Permanent effects of Sumerian civilisation
4 Some methodological problems concerning historical development and expansion
5 The expansion and maturity of slavery
6 Tribal confederations, local and territorial states
7 Resistance to slaveholder civilisation and its reform
8 The Greco-Roman Contribution
9 Medes, Persians and the making of the East
10 The Demise of a ParadigmSECTION 2: THE AGE OF FEUDAL CIVILISATION
11 The ideological identity of the feudal age
12 Islam as a revolutionary force of the feudal age
13 Institutionalisation and expansion of feudal civilisation
14 Climax and decay of feudal civilisation
15 Some conclusive remarks on Sections 1 and 2SECTION 3: THE CIVILISATION OF THE AGE OF CAPITALISM
16 The birth of capitalism and its new ideological identity
17 The development and institutionalisation of capitalist civilisation
18 Capitalist expansion and the climax of capitalist civilisation
19 The overall crisis of civilisation and the age of democratic civilisationSECTION 4: IDEOLOGICAL IDENTITY AND TIMESPACE CONDITIONS OF THE NEW DEVELOPMENT IN CIVILISATION
20 Ideological identity in the third millennium
21 A new programme for the Kurdish movement
22 Reflections on strategic and tactical approaches
23 Time as a creative element
24 Global aspects and perspectivesSECTION 5: CAN A NEW SYNTHESIS OF CIVILISATIONS ARISE FROM THE CULTURAL TRADITIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST?
25 The renewal of ideological identity is a task of historic priority
26 The Democratic Civilisation Project
27 Theory and practice of Middle Eastern civilisationNotes
Bibliography
Index