Shaping a humane world : civilizations, axial times, modernities, humanisms /

The generation of meaning is the primary precondition for acting and thinking. The essays in this volume contribute to a discourse on this matter with a decentred, globalized world in mind. The notions civilization, humanism and modernity - far from being exclusively Western ideas - may facilitate j...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kozlarek, Oliver, Rüsen, Jörn, Wolff, Ernst
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld [Germany] : Transcript, 2012.
Colección:Being human (Bielefeld, Germany) ; v. 15.
Temas:
Universals (Philosophy)
Civilization.
Humanism.
Universaux.
Civilisation.
Humanisme.
civilization.
humanism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Editorial
  • Content
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • I.1 Habitus
  • Means
  • Worldliness / Wolff, Ernst
  • I.2 Humanism / Rüsen, Jörn
  • I.3 Reinterpretation of Civilization / Jie, Zhang
  • II. 1 On Axial Ages and other Thresholds between Epochs / Giesen, Bernhard
  • II. 2 The Axial Age and Islam / Stauth, Georg
  • II. 3 The Theory of the Axial Age Revisited from a Theological Perspective / Essen, Georg
  • II. 4 How Unique is East Asian Modernity? / Schmidt, Volker H.
  • III. 1 Humanisms, the Still Unfulfilled Promise of the : xial Age9 of Modernity / Kozlarek, Oliver
  • III. 2 The Arena Games in the Roman Empire / Oesterdiekhoff, Georg W.
  • III. 3 Classical Tradition, Humanity, Occidental Humanism / Cancik, Hubert
  • III. 4 Humanity as Trans-Individuality / Schmidt, Stephan
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Index of Names
  • Backmatter.

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