Global Society and Human Rights -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 1. Preface -- 2. The structure of the Universe and the Shape of the Earth, or Imago Mundi -- 3. The Conflict of World-Images and the Identity of Europe -- 2. Knowledge Transmission and Universality of Man in Global Society -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Universality of Man: The Evolving Process in the Greek and Roman World -- 3. The Universal Mission of Islam and the Selective Reception of Greek Knowledge -- 4. Modernity and Global Society -- 5. Global Society as the Field for the Realization of Man's Universality -- 3. The Other and the Paradoxes of Universalism -- 1. Cultural Patterns and the Status of the Other -- 2. Main Models of 'I-Other' Relationships -- 3. We, Humanity -- They, the Barbarians -- 3.1. The Persian Model, or the Irrelevance of the Other -- 3.2. The Other as a Product of the Same, or the Enemy within -- 4. Universalism and Brotherhood -- 4.1. The Stoic and Jewish-Christian Models -- 4.2. Variations on the Theme of Universality of Man and Universal Brotherhood -- 5. The Status of the Other in Contemporary Society -- 6. The Internal Paradox of the I-Other Relationship -- 6.1. The Structural Paradox. Global Society vs. Nation-State -- 6.2. The Economic Paradox. Certain Benefits and Possible Conflicts -- 6.3. The Cultural Paradox. The Conflict over Identity -- 4. Religion, Human Rights and Political Conflicts -- 1. The Destruction of the Twin Towers - a Clash of Civilizations? -- 2. Many Modernizations in the Era of Globalization -- 3. The Transformation of War -- 4. Religion and Just war -- 4.1. In the Name of Allah -- 4.2. 'Civil Religion' as Legitimisation of 'Just War' -- 5. The Meaning of 11 September 2001 -- 5. Europe: Common Values and a Common Identity -- 1. Preface.

2. The Religious Foundations of the Value of the Individual -- 3. The Rational Foundation of the Value of the Individual -- 4. Religion and Secularization -- 5. The Tensions and the Aberrations of Secularization -- 6. Human Rights and European Identity -- 6. The Public Sphere and Political Space -- 1. The Bourgeois Public Sphere -- 2. The Complex History of the Public/Private Dichotomy -- 3. The Many Shapes of the Public Sphere -- 4. Human Rights and the Public Sphere -- 5. Cultural Pluralism and the Public Sphere -- 6. Religion and Politics -- 7. America and Europe: Carl Schmitt and Alexis De Tocqueville -- 1. Two Nostalgic Points of View -- 2. Jus Publicum Europaeum as Nomos of the Global World -- 2.1. The Nomos of the Earth -- 2.2. The First Spatial Revolution and the New Unique World -- 2.3. The Jus Publicum Europaeum -- 2.4. The Crisis of Jus Publicum Europaeum and American Imperialism -- 3. America Envisages the Destiny of Europe -- 3.1. A Fresh Glance at Society -- 3.2. In America There is No Recollection of Class Division -- 3.3. Conclusion -- 8. Identity and Human Rights: A Glance at Europe from Afar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Removing the Dust Sheets. The African Renaissance -- 2.1. The Question of Rationality and Humanity -- 2.2. Societies, Democracy, Human Rights -- 3. Provincializing Europe -- 4. World Government and the Neo-Confucian Perspective -- 5. Europe: Between Fascination and Rejection -- 9. Human Rights, Universalism and Cosmopolitanism -- Bibliography -- Index of Names.