Hans Joas: 16 books

Book cover of The Sacredness of the Person

The Sacredness of the Person

A New Genealogy of Human Rights

by Hans Joas
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013

What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand—and realize—these rights going into the future? In The Sacredness of the Person, internationally renowned sociologist and social theorist Hans Joas tells a story that differs from conventional...
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War in Social Thought

Hobbes to the Present

by Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012

This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of...
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Faith as an Option

Possible Futures for Christianity

by Hans Joas
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014

Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith. Nonbelievers have long assumed that progress in technology and the sciences renders religion irrelevant. Believers, in contrast, see religion as vital to society's...
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Mind, Self, and Society

The Definitive Edition

by George Herbert Mead, Hans Joas, Daniel R. Huebner
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015

George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected in Mind, Self, and Society all the more remarkable,...
Book cover of Der unsterbliche Mensch / Der Kampf mit dem Engel
by Alfred Döblin, Prof. Dr. Hans Joas
Language: German
Release Date: January 21, 2016

Religion im lebendigen DiskursWie hält es der moderne Erzähler und Mediziner, der Jude und Christ Alfred Döblin mit der Religion? Im freien Diskurs seiner "Religionsgespräche" erscheint sie als unerschöpfliche Quelle von Bildern und Geschichten, die es uns erlauben, mit anderen Augen...
Book cover of Sind die Menschenrechte westlich?
by Hans Joas
Language: German
Release Date: March 30, 2015

Wenn die Idee der Menschenrechte ein Charakteristikum der westlichen Kultur ist, wie kann es dann sein, dass die längste Zeit europäischer Geschichte von Sklaverei und Folter durchzogen ist? Hans Joas zeigt anhand der Rechtfertigung von Inhumanität im Westen, wie fragil der Fortschritt in Richtung...
Book cover of Kirche als Moralagentur?
by Hans Joas
Language: German
Release Date: November 28, 2016

Die Kirchen in Deutschland können sich gegenwärtig nicht über einen Mangel an öffentlicher Aufmerksamkeit beklagen. Es lässt sich allerdings auch eine skeptische Haltung vor allem gegenüber der Institution Kirche feststellen. Wir befi nden uns in einer Lage, in der eine neue sozialwissenschaftliche...
Book cover of Das Memorandum
by Gregor Maria Hoff, Hans Joas, Walter Kasper
Language: German
Release Date: August 10, 2011

Das Memorandum "Kirche 2011: Ein notwendiger Aufbruch" von katholischen Theologieprofessorinnen und -professoren hat kontroverse Reaktionen hervorgerufen. Der Band versammelt Unterzeichner und Nichtunterzeichner, die ihre Zustimmung bzw. Ablehnung in persönlichen Beiträgen theologisch...
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Politik und Religion

Zur Diagnose der Gegenwart

by Giorgio Agamben, Robert C. Bartlett, Hillel Fradkin
Language: German
Release Date: May 24, 2017

«Politik und Religion» ist wieder ein zentraler Gegenstand der öffentlichen Debatte. Nach langen Jahren, in denen viele Sozialwissenschaftler die Erwartung hegten, der religiöse Glaube werde im Gefolge des «Modernisierungsprozesses» allmählich ausgezehrt und schließlich absterben, wird heute...
Book cover of Pragmatismus zur Einführung
by Hans-Joachim Schubert, Harald Wenzel, Hans Joas
Language: German
Release Date: January 17, 2019

Diese Einführung stellt die philosophischen und soziologischen Grundzüge des amerikanischen Pragmatismus, dessen Kern eine Theorie kreativen Handelns ist, systematisch und im historischen Zusammenhang dar. Zuerst wurde diese Theorie von Charles S. Peirce in Philosophie und Semiotik begründet und...
Book cover of Social Theory

Social Theory

Twenty Introductory Lectures

by Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009

Social theory is the theoretical core of the social sciences, clearly distinguishable from political theory and cultural analysis. This book offers a unique overview of the development of social theory from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the present day. Spanning the literature in English,...
Book cover of The Axial Age and Its Consequences
by Robert N. Bellah, Hans Joas
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012

This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce. From Axial Age thinkers we inherited a sense of the world as a place not just to experience but to investigate, envision, and alter. A variety of utopian visions emerged and led to both reform and repression.
Book cover of Do We Need Religion?

Do We Need Religion?

On the Experience of Self-transcendence

by Hans Joas
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015

The old assumption that modernization leads to secularization is outdated. Yet the certainty that religion is an anthropological universal that can only be suppressed by governments is also dead. Thus it is now a favorable moment for a new perspective on religion. This book takes human experiences...
Book cover of The Varieties of Transcendence

The Varieties of Transcendence

Pragmatism and the Theory of Religion

by Hans Joas, Matthias Jung, Magnus Schlette
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

The Varieties of Transcendence traces American pragmatist thought on religion and its relevance for theorizing religion today. The volume establishes pragmatist concepts of religious individualization as powerful alternatives to the more common secularization discourse. In stressing the importance...
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