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  1. Shaping a Humane World
    Civilizations - Axial Times - Modernities - Humanisms
    Contributor: Rüsen, Jörn (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    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... more

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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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    Contributor: Rüsen, Jörn (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839419410
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    9783839419410
    RVK Categories: EC 1878
    Series: Der Mensch im Netz der Kulturen - Humanismus in der Epoche der Globalisierung / Being Human: Caught in the Web of Cultures - Humanism in the Age of Globalization ; 15
    Subjects: globalization; modernity; cultural history; Globalization; Cultural History; Modernity; Culture; Cultural Theory; Cultural Studies; Human; Philosophy of Culture; Axial Age; Humanism; Civilization; Axial Age; Modernity; Humanism; Globalization; Culture; Cultural History; Human; Cultural Theory; Philosophy of Culture; Cultural Studies;
    Other subjects: Axial Times; Civilization; Globalization; Humanism; Modernity; Paperback / softback
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource