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

• Main Author: Bowman, Jonathan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Global Justice, 15
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political science.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Political philosophy.; Philosophy, Asian.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Political Philosophy.; Political Science.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Philosophy of Religion.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Non-Western Philosophy.

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...

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.