Shaping a Humane World: Civilizations - Axial Times - Modernities - Humanisms

Bys: Kozlarek, Oliver, Rüsen, Jörn, Wolff, Ernst

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3837619419
• ISBN13: 9783837619416
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Transcript Publishing
• Length: 292 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher