Shaping a Humane World: Civilizations - Axial Times - Modernities - Humanisms

Sense generation is the primary precondition for acting and thinking meaningfully. The essays in this volume contribute to a discourse on this matter with a decentred, globalied world in mind. Civiliation, humanism, and modernity-far from being exclusively Western categories-are notions that can facilitate efforts to reflect together about the universality of current human affairs, exactly because it can be done from particular cultural perspectives. Modernity presents us with a second Axial Time in which the quest for a plural, but common, human world is the stake and the challenge.