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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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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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essays

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Shaping a humane world

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795695622

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Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen, Ernst Wolff (eds)

Series statement

Being human: caught in the web of cultures, v. 15

Sub title

civilizations, axial times, modernities, humanisms

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 --, Provided by Publisher

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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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