The Bonn Handbook of Globality

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).

V. Aesthetic-Practical Appropriation of the World: Art and Culture.- Aesthetics (Rolf Lessenich).- Archaeology (Bethany J.  Walker).- Art (Roland Kanz).- Beauty (Anne-Marie Bonnet).- Cultural change (Reinhard Zöllner).- Cultural memory (Roland A. Ißler).- Culture (Christoph Antweiler).- Dance (Erik Fischer and Alexander Kleinschrodt).- Film (Michael Wetzel).- Founding myths (Michael Bernsen).- Image (Jens Schröter).- Liberal arts and cultural studies (Paul Geyer).- Literature (Christian Moser).- Museum (Karoline Noack).- Music (Bettina Schlüter).- Narration (Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp).- Reception of antiquity (Thomas A. Schmitz).- Theater (Helmut J. Schneider).- Tradition (Rolf Lessenich).- Travel (Kerstin Stüssel).- VI. Public Order: Politics and Law.- Atlantic civilization (Karl Kaiser).- Constitution (Klaus F. Gärditz).- Democracy (Volker Kronenberg).- Dictatorship (Volker Kronenberg).- Diplomacy (Joachim Scholtyseck and Thomas Freiberger).- Demos (Christian Hillgruber).- Empire (Dominik Geppert).- Europe (Peter Geiss).- Federalism (Hanns Jürgen Küsters).- Governance (Frank Decker).- Law (Mathias Schmoeckel).- Monopoly on the use of force (Stefan Haack).- Nation (Peter Geiss).- Peace (Erich Weede).- Political leaders (Hans-Peter Schwarz).- Power (Matthias Becher).- Regulation (Christian Koenig).- Sanctions (Urs Kindhäuser).- Sovereignty (Matthias Herdegen).- World Order (Christian Hacke).- VII.- Moral Order and Human Mortality: Ethics and Religion.- Cognition (Andreas Bartels).- Community and society (Clemens Albrecht).- Conflict (Marc Laureys and Rolf Lessenich).- Conventions (Doris Mathilde Lucke).- Cosmos (Cornelia Richter).- Ethics (Dieter Sturma).- Eternity and finitude (Michael Schulz).- Freedom, equality, solidarity (Christoph Horn).- Humanity (Marc Laureys and Rolf Lessenich).- Human dignity (Theo Kobusch).- Images of man (Ludger Honnefelder).- Marriage and family (Gerhard Höver).- Meaning of life (Christoph Horn).- Oikos (Heinz Gerd Ingenkamp).- Religion (Michael Schulz).- Rituals (Michael Meyer-Blanck).- Sacred Books (Manfred Hutter).- Time (Dirk Tänzler).- Truth (Michael Schulz).- Values (Hartmut Kreß).- VIII. Shaping Globality.- Is globality shapeable? (Xuewu Gu).- Globality: The point of view of language and literature (Marion Gymnich).- Christianity and other religions in the age of globality (Wolfram Kinzig).- Global turn und cultural perceptions: The example of Islam (Stephan Conermann).- Globality: Cultural comparison between Europe and China (Wolfgang Kubin).- Humanity - Globality - Politics (Tilman Mayer).