The second birth
Subtitle: on the political beginnings of human existence
By: Tilo Schabert ; translated by Javier Ibáñez-Noé
Contributors: Ibáñez-Noé, Javier, translator
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780226038056
Subjects: Philosophy; Civilization; Anthropological aspects; Political science
Work titles: Zweite Geburt des Menschen
Description: "This book inquires anew into the question: whence originates the political Gestalt of human life and what does it entail? In pursuit of this question the book attempts to undertake a transcultural and transhistorical grounding of political theory. The material for it has accordingly been taken from classical works of different cultural spheres. Ancient Greek, Jewish and Christian, Chinese, Arabic, ancient Egyptian, and Indian texts have been examined with regard to their fundamental claims. Analysis of these texts showed that the visions of the political existence of human begins that they entertain can be surprisingly similar ... In this way, a body of knowledge that had largely fallen into oblivion owing to the advent of modernity could be recovered and made available for contemporary political theory. It is precisely this knowledge that has the potential for providing the foundation for transcultural commonalities in our own times"--Preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the original German into English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: At the start; title: In number; title: In body; title: In action; title: In consciousness; title: In grace; title: In the divine; title: In thought; title: In creation; title: In eros; title: In time; title: In law; title: In freedom; title: Epilogue.