Shmuel Eisenstadt
Shmuel Eisenstadt · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Israeli sociologist of comparative civilizations, modernization and the Axial Age
1923, Warsaw, Poland — 2010, Jerusalem, Israel
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Eisenstadt was an Israeli sociologist and a leading comparative theorist of civilizations, modernization and the 'Axial Age', whose concept of 'multiple modernities' challenged the idea of a single Western path to modern society. Long based at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he won the Balzan Prize and helped shape historical and comparative sociology worldwide. He was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw and raised in Mandatory Palestine.
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Israeli sociologist of comparative civilizations, modernization and the Axial Age
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Sociology