Sublime

cosmological values dominating time urged a return to the truths of a golden age or subordinated them to transcendent goals, there also existed other conceptions of time and history or histories in a minor key.

Thus, in my view, the Chinese conceptions of the new world order will need to respond to this fundamental mismatch and develop a cosmopolitan ideal whether from historical traditions, from new conceptions of universalism, or from some emergent combination thereof. The Chinese ideal of tianxia was perhaps the last archaic universalism to have surviv

Il faut à la fois mondialiser et démondialiser, croître et décroître, développer et envelopper, conserver et transformer.

More than most historians recognize, the subject–object dualism – ‘the world picture’ – informs our view of the autonomy of the human subject capable of world mastery. It

Globally, today, the urge to moral idealism and a new ethos of responsibility in civil – that is non-violent – society may well represent the migration of the transcendent regarding which Weber’s colleague, Georg Simmel, was so persuaded. What Václav Havel dubbed the ‘politics of the anti-political’ has become an enormous though amorphous, weakly i

In order to develop histories that are adequate to this challenge, we have to learn to link our existing subjecthood – the I of history – in many different scales and temporalities, from natural and geological ones to those of local ecologies; from changing capitalist production cycles to rhythms of sustainable institutions, practices and modes of