The Bonn Handbook of Globality - Volumes 1 and 2, 1st ed. 2019

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This two-volume handbook provides readers with a comprehensive interpretation of globality through the multifaceted prism of the humanities and social sciences. Key concepts and symbolizations rooted in and shaped by European academic traditions are discussed and reinterpreted under the conditions of the global turn. Highlighting consistent anthropological features and socio-cultural realities, the handbook gathers coherently structured articles written by 110 professors in the humanities and social sciences at Bonn University, Germany, who initiate a global dialogue on meaningful and sustainable notions of human life in the age of globality.

Volume 1 introduces readers to various interpretations of globality, and discusses notions of human development, communication and aesthetics.

Volume 2 covers notions of technical meaning, of political and moral order, and reflections on the shaping of globality.

I. Understanding globality

Brain and Mind......................................Ulrich Ettinger

Clothing......................................Volker Ladenthin

Competence......................................Una Röhr-Sendlmeier/Udo Käser

Demography......................................Hans-Dieter Laux

Education and Formation......................................Reinhold Boschki

Emotions......................................Rainer Banse/Jasmin Khosravie

Family......................................Una Maria Röhr-Sendlmeier

Friendship......................................Dorothee Gall

Gender......................................Sabine Sielke/Elisabeth Schäfer-Wünsche

Happiness......................................Christoph Horn

Health and medicine......................................Karoline Noack

Intelligence......................................André Beauducel

Knowledge......................................Elke Brendel

Life phases......................................Georg Rudinger

Nutrition......................................Joachim von Braun

Reading......................................Florian Radvan

Sexuality......................................Jasmine Khosravie/Rainer Banse

Sports......................................Dittmar Dahlmann

Subjectivity......................................Theo Kobusch

III. Human communication: Language and interaction 

Book......................................Günter Bader

Collective identity......................................Christoph Antweiler

Critique......................................Michael N. Forster

English......................................Klaus P. Schneider/Uwe Baumann

German......................................Claudia Wich-Reif

Graphism(s)......................................Sabine Mainberger

Internet......................................Caja Thimm

Knowledge transfer......................................Uwe Küchler

Languages......................................Franz Lebsanft

Manners......................................Doris Mathilde Lucke

Media......................................Michael Wetzel

Nonverbal Communication......................................Mechthild Albert

Reason and Rationality......................................Rainer Stuhlmann-Laeisz

Remembrance......................................Reinhold Boschki

Symbolic signs......................................Ludwig Morenz

Transfer of concepts......................................Harald Meyer

Translation......................................Daniela Pirazzini

World society......................................Rudolf Stichweh

Writing......................................Ludwig Morenz

Architecture......................................Georg Satzinger

Border......................................Peter Schwieger

Development......................................Erich Weede

Division of labor......................................Friedrich Fürstenberg

Environment......................................Jürgen Pohl

Habitation......................................Jörg Blasius

Home......................................Manfred Groten

Intellectual property......................................Matthias Leistner/Stefan Koroch

Landscape......................................Winfried Schenk

Mobility......................................Dittmar Dahlmann

Modernity......................................Ingo Stöckmann

Progress......................................Dirk Tänzler

Social Security......................................Friedrich Fürstenberg

Space......................................Conrad Schetter

Urban development ......................................Theo Kötter

Urban society......................................Jörg Blasius

Wealth......................................Winfried Schmitz

Work......................................Gerhard Blickle/Mareike Kholin

World Market......................................Ralph Kauz

Beauty..........................Anne-Marie BonnetCulture..........................Christoph AntweilerFounding myths..........................Michael BernsenLiterature..........................Christian MoserNarration..........................Barbara Schmidt-HaberkampCommunity and Society..........................Clemens AlbrechtFreedom, equality, solidarity..........................Christoph HornSacred Books..........................Manfred HutterValues..........................Hartmut KreßGlobality: Cultural comparison between Europe and China..........................Wolfgang Kubin 

Ludger Kühnhardt is a professor of Political Science at Bonn University, Germany. He is also director of Bonn University’s Center for European Studies (ZEI). 

Tilman Mayer is a professor of Political Science at Bonn University, Germany. He is also president of the Society for German Studies and a former president of the German Demographic Society (2010-2016).