Philosophy of Globalization / / Oscar Daniel, Concha Roldán.

• TeilnehmendeR: Daniel, Oscar; Roldán, Concha
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : De Gruyter,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (481 p.)

The aim of the publication is both to provide the debates on globalization with a genuine philosophical perspective by working out its normative dimensions, and to scientifically ground the ethical-philosophical discourse on global responsibility. Other topics addressed are the altering consciousness of space and time, and globalization as a discourse, as an ideology and as a symbolic form.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Global Economy and Politics -- The Political Subject in Globalization: the Discussion Agency -- Complex Citizenship and Globalization -- A Defense of Cooperative Cognition -- Conceptualizing Capitalist Globalization -- Liberalism's All-inclusive Promise of Freedom and its Illiberal Effects: A Critique of the Concept of Globalization -- Defense of 'Soft' Universalism or 'Clash of Civilizations' -- The Places of Critical Universalism: Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches in Context -- 2. Ethical Duty: Global Justice -- The Thinning and Deformation of Ethical and Political Concepts in the Era of Globalization -- Globalization, Inequalities and Justice -- From a Bounded View to a Globalized Perspective: Considerations on a Human Right to Health -- Who Are the Subjects of Justice in a Globalized World? From the 'Unidimensional Identity' to the 'Diversity of Identities' -- Sustainable Intergenerational Justice and its Ends -- Global Responsibility in a Historical Context -- 3. On History of Globalization -- Philosophical History at the Cusp of Globalization: Scottish Enlightenment Reflections on Colonial Spanish America -- Jesuit Mission and the Globalization of Knowledge of the Americas: Florian Paucke's Hin und Her in the Province of 'Paraquaria' During the Eighteenth Century -- Urban Globalization and its Historicity: The Case of the Global Sanitary City in Mexico in the Nineteenth Century -- A Land of Opportunities: Foreign Engineers in the Ottoman Empire -- Cartographies of the 'Eastern Question': Some Considerations on Mapping the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea in the Nineteenth Century -- The Effect of Dependency Theory on Discussions of 'Underdevelopment' in Turkey -- The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism and the Problem of Temporalization-on the 100th Anniversary of Witold Kula's Birth -- 4. Globalization in the History of Philosophy -- Globalization and Crisis of Values: Promise and Total Disappointment -- Radical and Moderate Enlightenment? The Case of Diderot and Kant -- Hospitality, Coercion and Peace in Kant -- Critical Global Studies and Planetary History: New Perspectives on the Enlightenment -- Globalization and Modernity in Marx and Postone -- The Metaphysics of Globalization in Heidegger -- Globalization as a Symbolic Form: Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Form as the Basis for a Theory of Globalization -- 5. Theory of Globalization and Philosophy of History -- Theory and Practice of Historical Writing in Times of Globalization -- Koselleck-Foucault: The Birth and Death of Philosophy of History -- Where is History Heading? Concerning the Idea of Progress -- The Crisis of Historical Time at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: An Early Counterpoint Between Benjamin and Heidegger as a Crucial Issue for Thinking Modernity, Globalization and its Historical Space -- A Philosophical Inquiry into the Future as a Category of Historical Time -- Index of Persons