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  • Under the Spell of Freedom

    Theory of Religion after Hegel and Nietzsche

    by Hans Joas ...
    How do the history of religion and the history of political freedom relate to each other? The variety of views on this subject in philosophy, the humanities and social sciences, and the public is broad and confusing. But the grandiose synthesis in which Hegel brought together Christianity and political freedom is still an enormous source of orientation for many-despite or even because of the ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Why the Church?

    Self-Optimization or Community of Faith

    by Hans Joas ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Why did Christianity produce the special organizational form "church" in the first place? Is it possible to be a Christian without the church? To what extent is Christian faith in community with other believers an alternative to the mere self-optimization of individuals?In this accessible and questioning new work, Hans Joas traverses theological, church-historical, sociological, and ethical ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Faith as an Option

    Possible Futures for Christianity

    by Hans Joas ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Many people these days regard religion as outdated and are unable to understand how believers can intellectually justify their faith.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 spiritual and moral well-being. But does modernization lead to secularization? Does secularization ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Do We Need Religion?

    On the Experience of Self-transcendence

    by Hans Joas ...
    The old assumption that modernization leads to secularization is outdated.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 of self-transcendence as its point of departure. Religious faith is seen as an attempt to articulate ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Sacredness of the Person

    A New Genealogy of Human Rights

    by Hans Joas ...
    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 narratives by tracing the concept of human rights back to the Judeo-Christian tradition or, ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Homo Interpretans

    Towards a Transformation of Hermeneutics

    by Johann Michel, Hans Joas ...
    Translated by David Pellauer ...
    When do we interpret? That is the question at the heart of this important new work by Johann Michel. The human being does not spend his time interpreting in everyday life. We interpret when we are confronted with a blurred, confused, problematic sense. Such is the originality of the author's perspective which removes the anthropological interdict that has hampered hermeneutics since Heidegger. ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Power of the Sacred

    An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment

    by Hans Joas, Alex Skinner ...
    Disenchantment is a key term in the self-understanding of modernity. But what exactly does this concept mean? What was its original meaning when Max Weber introduced it? And can the conventional meaning or Max Weber's view really be defended, given the present state of knowledge about the history of religion? In The Power of the Sacred, Hans Joas develops the fundamentals of a new sociological ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • War in Social Thought

    Hobbes to the Present

    by Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl ...
    A sweeping history of social theories about war and peace, from Hobbes to the twenty-first centuryThis 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 ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Mind, Self & Society

    by George Herbert Mead, Daniel R. Huebner, Hans Joas ...
    This foundational text of social psychology presents the most complete summation of Mead's theory of symbolic interactionism.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 ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Axial Age and Its Consequences

    by Robert N. Bellah, Hans Joas ...
    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. ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • The Varieties of Transcendence

    Pragmatism and the Theory of Religion

    by Hans Joas, Matthias Jung, Magnus Schlette ...
    Series series American Philosophy
    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 of Josiah Royce’s work, it emphasizes religious individualism’s compatibility with community. At the ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Social Theory

    Twenty Introductory Lectures

    by Hans Joas, Wolfgang Knöbl ...
    Translated by Alex Skinner ...
    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, French and German, it provides an excellent background to the most important social theorists and ... Read more

    $52.49 USD