Shaping a humane world : civilizations, axial times, modernities, humanisms, Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen, Ernst Wolff (eds)

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Shaping a humane world : civilizations, axial times, modernities, humanisms, Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen, Ernst Wolff (eds)

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civilizations, axial times, modernities, humanisms

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Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen, Ernst Wolff (eds)

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

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• Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2012

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• ©2012

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"This book is a product of a joint project on 'Humanism in the Era of Globalization: an Intercultural Dialogue on Humanity, Culture, and Values, ' which took place between 2006 and 2009. It was sponsored by the Stiftung Mercator and organized by the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen"--Page [7]

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Foreword Oliver Kozlarek/Jörn Rüsen/Ernst Wolffe 7 Introduction. Towards a Humane World of Many Worlds Oliver Kozlarek/Jörn Rüsen/Ernst Wolff 9 I. THE SHAPE OF HISTORY I.1 Habitus - Means - Worldliness. Technics in the Formation of Civilizations Ernst Wolff 25 I.2 Humanism. Anthropology - Axial Ages - Modernities Jörn Rüsen 55 I.3 Reinterpretation of Civilization. Two-way Interaction, Multiple Perspectives, and Awareness of Issues Zhang Jie 81 II. THE BREAKTHROUGH OF AXIAL TIMES AND MODERNITITES II.1 On Axial Ages and other Thresholds between Epochs Bernhard Giesen 95 II.2 The Axial Age and Islam. Reflections on World and History Today Georg Stauth 111 II.3 The Theory of the Axial Age Revisited from a Theological Perspective Georg Essen 147 II.4 How Unique is East Asian Modernity? Volker H. Schmidt 157 III. CHALLENGES AND PARADIGMS OF HUMANITY III.1 Humanisms, the Still Unfulfilled Promise of the Axial Age of Modernity Oliver Kozlarek 197 III.2 The Arena Games in the Roman Empire. A Contribution to the Explanation of the History of Morals and Humanity Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff 211 III.3 Classical Tradition, Humanity, Occidental Humanism. Hellenic-Roman Civilization and its Claim for Universal Validity Hubert Cancik 245 III.4 Humanity as Trans-Individuality. Tang Junyi s (1909-1978) Philosophy of Renwen Humanism Stephan Schmidt

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23 cm.

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289 pages

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9783837619416

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(OCoLC)795695622