Intercultural Communication on Human Rights and Peace

Learning from Western Europe and South America

AvAmos Nascimento

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This book brings together intercultural philosophy and human rights by focusing on how the theory and practice of human rights evolve differently in a plurality of contextual realities but coincide in the affirmation of key universal values.Introducing a philosophical perspective on intercultural communication, the author considers Karl Jaspers’s idea of Axial Age but expands it in dialogue with authors such as Jürgen Habermas and Enrique Dussel, who help define “Axiality” as a broader framework to address the plurality of cultures and norms that influence geopolitics, economics, human rights, and peace today. Focusing on Western Europe and South America as two examples of regional integration, the author argues that emerging regional blocs are not simply a matter for political economy but also for considerations on normativity, historical progression or regression, democratic participation of civil society, and the promotion of human rights and peace. In each region there are alternative discourses, practices, and systems that reveal, promote, and teach these values. Understanding the plurality of initiatives supporting human rights and peace and using intercultural communication to learn about their common claim to universality can help us address the challenges we face in the 21st century.This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of human rights, philosophy, political theory, history, anthropology, theology, international relations, policy studies, cultural studies, and more broadly to the wider humanities and social sciences.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-21
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Contextual and Intercultural Perspectives on Human Rights
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041159728

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Politiskt förtryck inom Samhälle och politik
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Amos Nascimento is Professor of Philosophy, German Studies, and Latin American Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma and Seattle, USA.

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“Nascimento’s magnificent survey of the historical genesis of human rights and cosmopolitan dialog spanning religious cultures and continents is imperative reading for anyone concerned about the prospect of advancing global peace and humanitarian justice in today’s complex world. Using Karl Jaspers’ pioneering ideas of axiality and communication as they have been critically appropriated by Jürgen Habermas and Enrique Dussel among many others, and focusing on Europe and South America as exemplary illustrations, Nascimento charts the many historical pathways traversing pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial, and de-colonial epochs leading toward the aspirational ethos that culminated in the creation of the United Nations, the European Union, and the parallel regional integration of South America under the auspices of the MERCOSUR treaty. Nascimento’s discussion of the seminal role of the 16th Century Salamanca School in planting the seeds of humanitarian legal idealism during the European conquest of the Americas is especially noteworthy.”David Ingram, Loyola University Chicago, USA“In an era of neo-imperialist wars and political authoritarianism, Amos Nascimento presents a well-balanced, intercultural re-interpretation of the idea of human rights. Beyond anti-Western postcolonialism and Eurocentric fallacies of the philosophies of Enlightenment, this work carefully explores and renews the potential of both European and Latin American thought for a global peace order based on human rights.”Hans Schelkshorn, University of Vienna, Austria

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Plurality and universality in the promotion of human rights and peace Part 1: Decentering Philosophical Worldviews 2. Karl Jaspers, the Axial Age, and world plurality 3. Axiality, cosmopolitanism, and intercultural communication Part 2: Intersecting Human Rights and Peace in Plural Contexts 4. Axiality and regional cosmopolitan communities: Between plurality and universality 5. Human rights and cosmopolitanism against imperialism: The Western European context 6. Human rights against colonialism and militarism: The South American context Part 3: Learning from Western Europe and South America 7. Intercultural communication and mutual learning on human rights and peace