Shaping a Humane World : : Civilizations - Axial Times - Modernities - Humanisms / / ed. by Ernst Wolff, Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Cancik, Hubert,; Essen, Georg,; Giesen, Bernhard,; Jie, Zhang,; Kozlarek, Oliver,; Oesterdiekhoff, Georg W.,; Rüsen, Jörn,; Schmidt, Stephan,; Schmidt, Volker H.,; Stauth, Georg,; Wolff, Ernst,
• HerausgeberIn: Kozlarek, Oliver,; Rüsen, Jörn,; Wolff, Ernst,
• 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 ; 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• 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