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

Kozlarek Oliver Rüsen, Jörn Wolff Ernst
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9783837619416
Published
2012-05-27
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Weight
992 gr
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23 mm
Width
14 mm
Thickness
2 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
Number of pages
292

Edited by
Kozlarek Oliver
Rüsen, Jörn
Wolff Ernst

Biographical note

Oliver Kozlarek (Dr. phil., Dr. en Humanidades) teaches Political and Social Philosophy and Social Theory at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Mexico. Jörn Rüsen (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult.) was Historian at the Universities Berlin (FU), Bochum, Bielefeld and Witten/Herdecke. Lastly he was Visiting Chair Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University. Ernst Wolff (Prof. Dr.) teaches philosophy at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and is Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Essen (Germany). His research covers hermeneutics, social and political philosophy and the philosophy of technology.

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

Kozlarek Oliver Rüsen, Jörn Wolff Ernst
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk
Kozlarek Oliver Rüsen, Jörn Wolff Ernst
Heftet / 2012 / Engelsk
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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.
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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.
Read more

Product details

ISBN
9783837619416
Published
2012-05-27
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Weight
992 gr
Height
23 mm
Width
14 mm
Thickness
2 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
292

Edited by
Kozlarek Oliver
Rüsen, Jörn
Wolff Ernst

Biographical note

Oliver Kozlarek (Dr. phil., Dr. en Humanidades) teaches Political and Social Philosophy and Social Theory at the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Mexico. Jörn Rüsen (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult.) was Historian at the Universities Berlin (FU), Bochum, Bielefeld and Witten/Herdecke. Lastly he was Visiting Chair Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University. Ernst Wolff (Prof. Dr.) teaches philosophy at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and is Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Essen (Germany). His research covers hermeneutics, social and political philosophy and the philosophy of technology.

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