Cosmoipolitan Justice The Axial Age, Multiple Modernities, and the Postsecular Turn

Cosmoipolitan Justice The Axial Age, Multiple Modernities, and the Postsecular Turn / by Jonathan Bowman.

This book assesses the rapid transformation of the political agency of religious groups within transnational civil society under conditions of globalization weakening sovereign nation-states. It offers a synthesis of the resurgence of Jasper’s axial thesis from distinct lines of research initiated b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bowman, Jonathan (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Studies in Global Justice, 15
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Political philosophy.
Political science.
Private international law.
Conflict of laws.
Religion—Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Philosophy, Asian.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 Introduction—Why Cosmoipolitan Justice? Species-Ethics and the Competing Ecumene of the Axial Age
  • Part I: Axial Period One—the Great World Religions
  • Chapter 2 Extending the Dialectics of Secularization Eastward: Scriptural Hermeneutics and Discursive Insights from Hindu, Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist Philosophy of Language
  • Chapter 3 Jasper’s Axial Prophesy Fulfilled? The Origin and Return of Biblical Religion, Abrahamic Hermeneutics, and the Second Person
  • Part II: Axial Period Two—Multiple Modernities
  • Chapter 4 Whose Justice? Which Modernity? Taylor and Habermas on European versus American Exceptionalism
  • Chapter 5 The Fiction of a European Secular Modernity: Rationalists, Romantics, and Multiple Modernists
  • Part III: Axial Period Three—the Postsecular Turn
  • Chapter 6 Conclusion—Western vs. Eastern Replies to the Inverse Economic Pyramid: Innovation, Development, and the Material Future of Cosmoipolitan Justice
  • Index.

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