The Bonn Handbook of Globality

1. Human Development: Freedom and Education

   1. Health and Medicine

      • Karoline Noack

      Pages 217-226

   2. Intelligence

      • André Beauducel

      Pages 227-236

   3. Knowledge

      • Elke Brendel

      Pages 237-245

   4. Life Phases

      • Georg Rudinger

      Pages 247-265

   5. Nutrition

      • Joachim von Braun

      Pages 267-275

   6. Reading

      • Florian Radvan

      Pages 277-285

   7. Sexuality

      • Jasmin Khosravie, Rainer Banse

      Pages 287-296

   8. Sports

      • Dittmar Dahlmann

      Pages 297-305

   9. Subjectivity

      • Theo Kobusch

      Pages 307-325

2. Human Communication: Language and Interaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 327-327

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   2. Argumentation

      • Elke Brendel

      Pages 329-337

   3. Book

      • Günter Bader

      Pages 339-352

   4. Collective Identity

      • Christoph Antweiler

      Pages 353-361

   5. Critique

      • Michael N. Forster

      Pages 363-373

   6. English

      • Klaus P. Schneider, Uwe Baumann

      Pages 375-385

   7. German

      • Claudia Wich-Reif

      Pages 387-395

   8. Graphism(s)

      • Sabine Mainberger

      Pages 397-408

   9. Knowledge Transfer

      • Uwe Küchler

      Pages 409-417

   10. Languages

       • Franz Lebsanft

       Pages 419-429

   11. Manners

       • Doris Mathilde Lucke

       Pages 431-440

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.

• Globality
• Globalization
• Human development
• Global turn
• Modernity
• Universalization

• Political Science, University of Bonn/Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI), Bonn, Germany

  Ludger Kühnhardt

• Political Science, History of Ideas and Contemporary History, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Tilman Mayer

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).

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