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Modernity Out of Joint : Democracy and Asian Values in Jürgen Habermas and Amartya K. Sen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Aurora : The Davies Group, Publishers, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781935790211
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modernity Out of JointDDC classification:
  • 321.801
LOC classification:
  • B3258.H324 -- F6713 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Part One Global Cultures, Local Ethics -- Preamble -- Asian values and human rights -- Which globalization? -- The Glo-cal paradox -- European exceptionalism: merits and paradoxes of Weber's comparative approach -- Protestantism and the Confucian ethic -- Part Two Modernity and the West's Self-Understanding: The Discursive Paradigm -- Preamble -- Between Habermas and Weber: "Western rationalism" -- Legal medium and social integration -- "Logical genesis" of law -- A defense of human rights -- Beyond individualism -- Part Three Pluriversal Justice: Amartya Sen and the Capabilities Approach -- Preamble -- Ethics and economics: beyond the homo oeconomicus -- Culture and market -- Self-Orientalism -- The intercultural dimensions of freedom -- The values of development -- Capabilities and eudaimonia -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Human Rights, Capabilities and Justice: A Triangular Comparison -- Bibliography.
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Intro -- Contents -- Part One Global Cultures, Local Ethics -- Preamble -- Asian values and human rights -- Which globalization? -- The Glo-cal paradox -- European exceptionalism: merits and paradoxes of Weber's comparative approach -- Protestantism and the Confucian ethic -- Part Two Modernity and the West's Self-Understanding: The Discursive Paradigm -- Preamble -- Between Habermas and Weber: "Western rationalism" -- Legal medium and social integration -- "Logical genesis" of law -- A defense of human rights -- Beyond individualism -- Part Three Pluriversal Justice: Amartya Sen and the Capabilities Approach -- Preamble -- Ethics and economics: beyond the homo oeconomicus -- Culture and market -- Self-Orientalism -- The intercultural dimensions of freedom -- The values of development -- Capabilities and eudaimonia -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Human Rights, Capabilities and Justice: A Triangular Comparison -- Bibliography.

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