De l’interdisciplinarité et du comparatisme en civilisation britannique

Abstract

This article intends to delineate the contours, both epistemological and methodological, of civilisation as an academic discipline. First, two of the chief characteristics of civilisation shall be examined: interdisciplinarity and the “paradoxical externality” of civilisation specialists. Then, it will be shown that these characteristics are compatible with comparatism, whose various forms and possible applications to the field of civilisation will be considered.

Keywords

• interdisciplinarity
• Civilisation
• paradoxical externality
• comparative studies