In Memory of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt.

Published jointly with The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Contents: Benjamin Z. Kedar, Ilana Friedrich Silber and Adam Klin-Oron, ‘Preface’; Benjamin Z. Kedar, ‘On Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt: Opening Remarks’; Irit Meir, ‘On a Personal Note – My Father‘; Björn Wittrock, ‘A Contemporary Classic: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt’s Research Program and Its Contexts’; Wolfgang Knöbl, ‘Confronting World/Global History with Eisenstadt’s Civilizational Analysis: Promises and Problems’; Benjamin Z. Kedar, ‘Cultural Persistence Despite Total Political Collapse: The Role of Elites’; Yuri Pines, ‘Post-Imperial Emperors? Traditional Chinese Political Culture and Its Afterlife’; Elisabeth S. Clemens, ‘Dynamics of Nation-Building: Benevolence and Liberalism in American Political Development’; Luis Roniger, ‘Multiple Modernities, World History and the Global Rise of Human Rights’; Gabriel Motzkin, ‘The Problem of Scale in Comparative History’; Yuval Noah Harari, ‘Does History Have a Direction?’; Benjamin Z. Kedar, ‘S.N. Eisenstadt: List of Publications’.