Shaping a Humane World : : Civilizations - Axial Times - Modernities - Humanisms / / ed. by Ernst Wolff, Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Cancik, Hubert,; Essen, Georg,; Giesen, Bernhard,; Jie, Zhang,; Kozlarek, Oliver,; Oesterdiekhoff, Georg W.,; Rüsen, Jörn,; Schmidt, Stephan,; Schmidt, Volker H.,; Stauth, Georg,; Wolff, Ernst,
• HerausgeberIn: Kozlarek, Oliver,; Rüsen, Jörn,; Wolff, Ernst,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• 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
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Editorial --; Content --; Foreword --; Introduction --; I. The Shape of History --; I.1 Habitus – Means – Worldliness --; I.2 Humanism --; I.3 Reinterpretation of Civilization --; II. The Breakthrough of Axial Times and Modernitites --; II.1 On Axial Ages and other Thresholds between Epochs --; II.2 The Axial Age and Islam --; II.3 The Theory of the Axial Age Revisited from a Theological Perspective --; II.4 How Unique is East Asian Modernity? --; III. Challenges and Paradigms of Humanity --; III.1 Humanisms, the Still Unfulfilled Promise of the ›Axial Age‹ of Modernity --; III.2 The Arena Games in the Roman Empire --; III.3 Classical Tradition, Humanity, Occidental Humanism --; III.4 Humanity as Trans-Individuality --; Notes on the Contributors --; Index of Names --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839419410; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370744
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839419410?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ernst Wolff, Oliver Kozlarek, Jörn Rüsen.

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.