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Uniform Title Kulturellen Werte Europas. English
Title The cultural values of Europe / edited by Hans Joas and Klaus Wiegandt ; translated by Alex Skinner
Edition First English edition
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (x, 374 pages) : illustrations
Contents The axial age in world history / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- Judeo-Christian tradition / Wolfgang Huber -- The Greco-Roman tradition / Christian Meier -- How Europe became diverse : on the medieval roots of the plurality of values / Michael Borgolte -- Freedom, slavery, and the modern construction of rights / Orlando Patterson -- The value of introspection / Kurt Flasch -- Rationality -- a specifically European characteristic? / Wolfgang Schluchter -- The affirmation of ordinary life / Wolfgang Reinhard -- Inner nature and social normativity : the idea of self-realization / Christophe Menke -- The status of the Enlightenment in German history / Reinhart Koselleck -- The dark continent -- Europe and totalitarianism / Mark Mazower -- Value change in Europe from the perspective of empirical social research / Helmut Thome -- The realities of cultural struggles / Dieter Senghaas -- The contest of values : notes on contemporary Islamic discourse / Gudrun Kramer -- Does Europe have a cultural identity? / Peter Wagner
Summary What is the cultural identity of Europe? Are there specifically European values? Questions like these are at the centre of a considerable number of political and scholarly debates in contemporary Europe. Contributors examine the most important innovations and culturally vital value traditions of Europe to produce an image of contemporary European self-understanding
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Translated from the German
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SUBJECT Europa gnd
Subject Identité européenne.
Histoire.
Identité culturelle.
Valeurs culturelles.
Christianisme.
Civilization
Cultural policy
Kulturelle Identität
Wertorientierung
Kulturell identitet -- Europa.
Kultur -- Europa.
Political culture -- Europe -- Congresses
SUBJECT Europe -- Cultural policy -- Congresses
Europe -- Civilization -- Congresses
Subject Europe.
Europe
Europe -- Civilization -- Congresses
Europe -- Intellectual life -- Congresses
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Joas, Hans, 1948- editor.
Wiegandt, Klaus, editor.
Skinner, Alex, translator.
Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen.
Forum für Verantwortung. Conference (3rd : 2004 : Otzenhausen)
ISBN 9781846315800
1846315808