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Thinking Utopia
After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "e;end of utopia"e; ("e;end of history,"e; …
Humanism in Intercultural Perspective
This book is a breakthrough in illuminating humanism. For the first time it is presented in an intercultural perspective. It introduces Chinese, Indian, African, Islamic, and …
Evidence and Meaning
As one of the premier historical thinkers of his generation, Jrn Rsen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history as it is practiced today. …
Exploring Humanity
The old humanistic model, aiming at universalism, ecumenism, and the globalization of various Western systems of values and beliefs, is no longer adequate - even if it pleads for …
Western Historical Thinking
What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "e;history"e; as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the …
Meaning and Representation in History
History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, …
Historical Memory in Africa
A vast amount of literature-both scholarly and popular-now exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from an African …
Shaping a Humane World
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 …
Humanism: Foundations, Diversities, Developments
The book describes humanism in a systematic and historical perspective. It analyzes its manifestation and function in cultural studies and its role in the present. Within the book, …
Humanism and Muslim Culture
The papers of this volume move from the abstract scheme of an intercultural humanism of the future to concrete cultural expressions of humanism within the Muslim culture of …
Time and History
This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a …