Shaping a Humane World : : Civilizations - Axial Times - Modernities - Humanisms / / ed. by Ernst Wolff, Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen.
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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Der Mensch im Netz der Kulturen - Humanismus in der Epoche der Globalisierung / Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cultures - Humanism in the Age of Globalization ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Editorial -- Content -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. The Shape of History -- I.1 Habitus – Means – Worldliness -- I.2 Humanism -- I.3 Reinterpretation of Civilization -- II. The Breakthrough of Axial Times and Modernitites -- II.1 On Axial Ages and other Thresholds between Epochs -- II.2 The Axial Age and Islam -- II.3 The Theory of the Axial Age Revisited from a Theological Perspective -- II.4 How Unique is East Asian Modernity? -- III. Challenges and Paradigms of Humanity -- III.1 Humanisms, the Still Unfulfilled Promise of the ›Axial Age‹ of Modernity -- III.2 The Arena Games in the Roman Empire -- III.3 Classical Tradition, Humanity, Occidental Humanism -- III.4 Humanity as Trans-Individuality -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index of Names -- Backmatter |
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Summary: | 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 joint efforts of reflecting on the universality of current human conditions, particularly since such reflexion is possible from particular cultural perspectives. Modernity presents us with a second Axial Time in which the quest for a plural, but shared, humane world is the challenge. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783839419410 9783111025230 9783110661552 9783110352856 9783110370744 |
DOI: | 10.1515/transcript.9783839419410?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Ernst Wolff, Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen. |