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The Concept of Humanity in an Age of Globalization

Zhang Longxi 編
Zhang Longxi，Fred Dallmayr，Jorn Rusen，Djelal Kadir，Balmurli Natrajan，Patrick Colm Hogan，Dieter Sturma，Georg Essen，Sophia Rosenfeld，Donald D. Stone，David Stern，Oliver Kozlarek，Zhang Longxi，Krishan Kumar，G.E.R. Lloyd 著

出版日期2012年01月出版
書籍裝訂精裝 / 24*15.5 / 240頁 / 單(黑) / 英文
出版單位National Taiwan University Press and V&R unipress
叢書系列東亞文明研究－Reflections on (In)Humanity 1
ISBN978-986-0300765
定價700元
紙本書三民書局 / 五南網路書店 / 博客來 / 國家書店 / 灰熊愛讀書 / 誠品網路書店 / 讀冊生活 /

Rethinking humanity as a concept in our age of globalization and its relevance to the social and political reality of our times are the topic of this book. It calls for the reclaiming of humanism as an effective response to the conflict, turmoil, and violence we witness in the world today. Concepts of humanity and humanism have become suspect of naivete at best, and guilty of bad faith and repressive ideologies at worst. Yet, hope for improvement is incorrigibly human – the concept of humanity still holds enormous attraction to intellectuals and humanistic scholars.

At the same time, it is important to realize that the critique of humanism is very much based on – and limited to – Western social and historical experience. To re-conceptualize humanity and humanism from a truly global perspective will help reclaiming a more inclusive kind of humanism. In this sense, a cross-cultural perspective is important for reclaiming humanism in our age of globalization.

The present volume is the result of such an effort. The diversity of the authors’ views speaks eloquently of the complexity of the concept of humanity or what constitutes the distinctly human, and therefore the necessity to have an in-depth dialogue on the fate of humanity.

Zhang Longxi

Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at the City University of Hong Kong and a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

Contents

Acknowledgment

Zhang Longxi
Introduction: Humanity and the Diversity of Conceptualization

Fred Dallmayr
1. Who Are We Now? For an “Other” Humanism

Jorn Rusen
2. Towards a New Idea of Humankind: Unity and Difference of Cultures at the Crossroads of Our Time

Djelal Kadir
3. Ecce homo: Somewhat Human, Particularly Global, Conveniently Universal, Relatively Unique, Comparatively Incommensurable

Balmurli Natrajan
4. The Problem of “Difference” in Discourses of Civilization and Culture

Patrick Colm Hogan
5. The Trouble with Moral Universalism: On Human Cognition, Human Bias, and Human Rights

Dieter Sturma
6. Humanism and Intercultural Dialogue

Georg Essen
7. “Who observes religions?” Negotiating Faith, Politics and the Idea of Humanism in an “Era of Terrorism”

Sophia Rosenfeld
8. Humanity and Its Common Sense

Donald D. Stone
9. The Theme of Forgiveness in Western Culture

David Stern
10. The Idea of Humanity in Jewish Tradition: From “The Image of God” to the Jews of China

Oliver Kozlarek
11. Towards a Practical Humanism

Zhang Longxi
12. What Is Human or Human Nature? Different Views in Ancient China

Krishan Kumar
13. Empires as Bearers of Global Ideas of Humanity

G.E.R. Lloyd
14. Humanities in a Globalized World: Vive l’Unit|, Vive la Diff|rence

List of Contributors