Intercultural Communication on Human Rights and Peace : Learning from Western Europe and South America (Routledge Studies in Contextual and Intercultural Perspectives on Human Rights)

Nascimento, Amos

Routledge（2026/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781041159759

Full Description

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.

Contents

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