Books written by Hans Joas
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The Varieties of Transcendence: Pragmatism and the Theory of Religion
... Christian Scherer for the index. We also owe thanks to the external reviewers Kenneth Stikkers and Roger Ward for their most useful comments, and Douglas Anderson for the publication of the book in the “American Philosophy” series.
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The Axial Age and Its Consequences
Zurich: Artemis / Munich: Piper. English: TheOrigin and Goalof History, trans. Michael Bullock. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul /New Haven:Yale University Press,1953. _____ . 1950. Einführungin diePhilosophie: Zwölf Radiovorträge.
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The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment
Barnes, Michael Horace. Stages of Thought: The Co- Evolution of Religious Thought and Science (Oxford: ... In Karl Jaspers in der Diskussion, edited by Hans Saner (Munich: Piper, 1973): 274–296. Barth, Ulrich. “Friedrich Schleiermacher.
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War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present
Williams, Michael C. (1989), rousseau, realism and realpolitik, in: Millennium: Journal of International Studies 18, 2:185–203. Willms, bernard (1987), Thomas Hobbes. Das Reich des Leviathan. Munich/ zurich: Piper.
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War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present
Anyone who studies this era, which was bookended by the names of Thomas Hobbes and Carl von Clausewitz, will be surprised by at least two things. First, it is revealing that those doctrines that defined the later discipline of ...
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Sozialtheorie: Zwanzig einführende Vorlesungen
Dieses Buch gibt einen einzigartigen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Sozialtheorie von 1945 bis heute.
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The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment
This book constitutes a challenge - for believers and non-believers alike"--
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Social Theory: Twenty Introductory Lectures
Originallyfrom South Africa, he arrivedin England inthelate 1940s, making a name for himself chiefly through the analysis ofethnic conflicts. In Key Problems of Sociological Theory, Rex criticized Parsons primarily for his onesided ...
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Pragmatism and Social Theory
In Alexander's interpretation of social theory , no sufficient argument is given for the assertion , which he makes very forcefully , that the problems of action and social order are the key problems of any and every sociological theory ...
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The Creativity of Action
Based on Joas’s celebrated study of George Herbert Mead, this work reevaluates the contribution of American pragmatism and European philosophical anthropology to theories of action in the social sciences.
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Secularization and the World Religions
This volume is concerned with the connections between religions and the social world and with the extent, limits, and future of secularization.
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Communicative Action: Essays on Jürgen Habermas's The Theory of Communicative Action
Contributors: Jeffrey Alexander. Johann P. Arnason. Johannes Berger. Gunter Dux. Jurgen Habermas. Hans Joas. Hans-Peter Kruger. Thomas McCarthy. Herbert Schnadelbach. Martin Seel. Charles Taylor.
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The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science
The disappearance of the old Paris became a leitmotif of Les Fleurs du Mal. Baudelaire's experience ofloss found its ex- pression in city poems that, once we have seen Charles Meryon's etchings, make it virtually impossible for us to ...
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David Martin and the Sociology of Religion
2016, Ruin and Restoration: On Violence, Liturgy, and Reconciliation (Introductory essay by Charles Taylor), London and New York: Routledge. 2017, Secularisation, Pentecostalism and ...
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Interdisziplinarität als Lernprozess: Erfahrungen mit einem handlungstheoretischen Forschungsprogramm
Doktrin stand für den Lernprozeß aus der Sicht des Lehrers , Disziplin aus der Perspektive des Schülers . Wie es im philosophischen Wörterbuch ( 1692 ) von Etienne Chauvin heißt : » Disziplin ist ein von einem Lehrer anerkannter ...
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The Genesis of Values
With The Genesis of Values, renowned theorist Hans Joas explores the nature of these difficulties in relation to some of the leading figures of twentieth-century philosophy and social theory: Friedrich Nietzsche, William James, Max Scheler, ...
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The Cultural Values of Europe
In this age of globalization and dissolving borders of national identity, questions about the nature of cultural values and symbolic structures abound, especially for newly integrated communities of political and...
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G. H. Mead: A Contemporary Re-Examination of His Thought
In this book, Hans Joas interweaves Mead's political and intellectual biography with the development of his theories.
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The Axial Age and Its Consequences
This book makes the bold claim that intellectual sophistication was born worldwide during the middle centuries of the first millennium bce.
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Social Action and Human Nature
Social Action and Human Nature