Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Editorial 2
3. Content 5
4. Foreword 7
5. Introduction 9
6. I. The Shape of History
7. I.1 Habitus – Means – Worldliness 25
8. I.2 Humanism 55
9. I.3 Reinterpretation of Civilization 81
10. II. The Breakthrough of Axial Times and Modernitites
11. II.1 On Axial Ages and other Thresholds between Epochs 95
12. II.2 The Axial Age and Islam 111
13. II.3 The Theory of the Axial Age Revisited from a Theological Perspective 147
14. II.4 How Unique is East Asian Modernity? 157
15. III. Challenges and Paradigms of Humanity
16. III.1 Humanisms, the Still Unfulfilled Promise of the ›Axial Age‹ of Modernity 197
17. III.2 The Arena Games in the Roman Empire 211
18. III.3 Classical Tradition, Humanity, Occidental Humanism 245
19. III.4 Humanity as Trans-Individuality 257
20. Notes on the Contributors 281
21. Index of Names 287
22. Backmatter 290