Exploring Humanity

The principles and practices of intercultural humanism as an inclusive vision for humanity

The old humanistic model, aiming at universalism, ecumenism, and the globalization of various Western systems of values and beliefs, is no longer adequate even if it pleads for an ever-wider inclusion of other cultural perspectives and for intercultural dialogue.In contrast, it would be wise to retain a number of its assumptions and practices which it incidentally shares with humanistic models outside the Western world. We must now reconsider and remap it in terms of a larger, global reference frame. This anthology does just that, thus contributing to a new field of study and practice that could be called »intercultural humanism«.

Auteur

Prof Dr Jörn Rüsen is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, University of Essen.