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WHAT CONDITION OUR CONDITION IS IN
Author(s) -
Trüper Henning
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
history and theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.169
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1468-2303
pISSN - 0018-2656
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2012.00623.x
Subject(s) - humanism , historicity (philosophy) , epistemology , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , perspective (graphical) , politics , diversity (politics) , philosophy , anthropology , computer science , theology , political science , law , artificial intelligence
In Humanism in Intercultural Perspective , editors Jörn Rüsen and Henner Laass outline their project of renewing the foundations of the notion of “humanism.” They collect a large variety of contributions they hope will be conducive to this aim. Yet the architecture of the project leaves open a long list of conceptual problems, concerning in particular: the integration of cultural diversity into humanism; the relationship between humanism and the political; the way in which normativity is incorporated into humanism; and the question as to the place of historicity in the human condition. An extended discussion of Elisio Macamo's, Dipesh Chakrabarty's, and Friedrich Wilhelm Graf's contributions to the volume serves to further elucidate these problems and to explore ways in which they might possibly be solved.