中文摘要 |
As an answer to urgent questions of cultural orientation in the globalizing process the project of developing a 'new humanism' was been started in 2006. As one result of the ongoing international research and cooperation meanwhile 10 volumes in a special book-series and about 100 articles have been published. Stephan Schmidt's review of the first volume (Humanism in Intercultural Perspective―Experiences and Expectations, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2009) in this journal (Vol. 7, No. 2, Issue 14, Dec. 2010, pp. 361-372) indicates some problems of this approach. Schmidt understands the intention of this humanism as caught in a clear pregiven dichotomy between universalism and relativism. For him any universalistic approach to norms and values of human life is seen as an attack against the difference and variety in which human life is manifest and pursued. |