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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Foreword by Peter Baehr -- Dialogue, Disputation, Dismissiveness and the Motives for Controversy -- Notes -- PART I: From Combat to Dialogue -- 1. Dialogical Social Theory -- Prologue. The Idea of Dialogue -- Note -- 2. Dialogue and Human Combat -- Nature: Aggression Instinctive -- Society and Environment: Aggression Cultural -- Micro-social Situations: Aggression Interpersonal -- Rebels Against Aggression -- Secular Trends that Support the Reduction of Combativeness -- 3. Transforming the Adversarial Mindset: Japanese Martial Arts and American Litigation -- The Martial Arts in Japanese Culture -- Litigation in Euro-American Culture -- The Methodology of Aikido -- The Methodology of Mediation -- Mutual Relevance -- Aikido's Gifts to Mediation -- How Mediation Might Enrich Aikido Practice -- Notes -- 4. Civilizations, Clashing and Harmonious -- In Support of the Huntington Thesis -- Challenges to the Huntington Thesis -- From Clashing to Connecting Civilization: The Greco-Roman Case -- India and Japan -- The Abrahamic Civilizations -- A Challenge for the Future -- Notes -- PART II: Dialogue Involving Shared Objectives -- 5. Universalism in the French Philosophes and the Russian Intelligentsia -- I The Universalist Outlook -- II Universalism in the French Enlightenment -- III Enlightenment Universalism on Russian Soil -- IV Universalism, Russian Style -- V Conclusion -- Notes -- 6. The Sociology of Morality in the Work of Parsons, Simmel, and Merton -- Talcott Parsons: From Voluntarism to Multidimensional Determinism -- Georg Simmel: From Multidimensional Determinism To Existential Voluntarism -- Robert K. Merton: From Anomie To Normative Ambivalence -- Toward Integration -- Notes