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

By Jorn Rusen , Oliver Kozlarek , Ernst Wolff (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Year
2012
ISBN
3837619419, 9783837619416
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2005264 bytes)
Series
Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cul- tures – Humanism in the Age of Globalization, 15
Pages
289\286
Time added
2022-11-28 01:43:16

Description

Sense generation is the primary precondition for acting and thinking meaningfully. The essays in this volume contribute to a discourse on this matter with a decentred, globalized world in mind. Civilization, humanism, and modernity—far from being exclusively Western categories—are notions that can facilitate efforts to reflect together about the universality of current human affairs, exactly because it can be done from particular cultural perspectives. Modernity presents us with a second Axial Time in which the quest for a plural, but common, human world is the stake and the challenge.

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