ISBN:
9783319127095
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (X, 315 p. 1 illus)
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online resource
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
Studies in Global Justice 15
DDC:
320.01
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Philosophy, modern
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Philosophy
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Social sciences Philosophy
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Political science Philosophy
Abstract:
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 by Eisenstadt, Habermas, Taylor, Bellah, and others. It explores the concept of cosmoipolitanism from the combined perspectives of sociology of religion, critical theory, secularization theory, and evolutionary cultural anthropology. At the theoretical level, cosmoipolitanism prescribes how local, national, transnational, global, and virtual spaces ought publically to engage in transcivilizational discourse without presuming the secular assumptions tied to cosmopolitanism. Employing insights of critical theory, this book offers a micro-level analysis of the pragmatics of discourse of each axial tradition contributing to the role of religion within multiple modernities. While circumscribing the particular historical limits of each tradition, the book extends their internal claims to species universality in light of the potential for boundless communication Jaspers saw initiated with the Axial Age. In Jon Bowman's novel and important work, he rethinks the challenges of global justice. Bowman is not just concerned with global justice in the modern world, but with a genealogy that begins with a better understanding of the Axial age, one that is also the unique signature of cosmoi-political institutions. Arguing with depth and precision, Bowman challenges Kantian and Rawlsian universalism. His argument provides a new interpretation of cosmopolitan justice as he explores the deeper roots of cosmopolitan justice. James Bohman Saint Louis University Jon Bowman’s Cosmoipolitan Justice is an important, innovative and timely work. Construing globality in terms of pervasive conditions of worldwide interdependence, Bowman advances a decidedly pluralistic account of cosmopolitanism, one uniquely shaped by recent theories of multiple modernities. His analysis is sustained by a highly informed appropriation of such diverse thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Abudullah An-Naim, Talad Asad, Schmuel Eisenstadt, Jürgen Habermas, Karl Jaspers, John Rawls, Amartya Sen, and Charles Taylor. One special feature is the book’s synthesis of research on global governance with that on post-secularity and the place of religion in the public sphere. On this basis Bowman presents a distinctive ac ...
Description / Table of Contents:
AcknowledgementsChapter 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.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-12709-5
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