How Much Globalization Can We Bear? - Tapa blanda

Safranski, Rudiger

 
9780745633893: How Much Globalization Can We Bear?
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ISBN 10: 0745633897 ISBN 13: 9780745633893
Editorial: Polity Press, 2006

Sinopsis

According to current debates, ‘individualization’ has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to ‘globalization'. It has often seemed that nothing would be left once these processes have fully unfolded, other than individual human atoms dispersed on a globe without any political, economic or cultural structures. 
Regardless of whether this description is based on any good and valid observation, nobody drew the conclusion that suddenly emerges as evident after reading Rüdiger Safranski’s lucid and timely exploration of the issue: globalization, if it occurs, means a radical change in the human condition. It brings human beings into direct confrontation with the world in its totality. Almost unnoticed in broader debate, the scenario of globalization entails a return – in new and radical guise – of the time-honoured question of the ways of being-in-the-world of human beings. 
In this compelling new book, the philosopher Rüdiger Safranski grapples with the pressing problems of the global age: ‘Big Brother’ states, terrorism, international security and the seeming impossibility of ‘world’ peace. He suggests that the era of globalization should not be thought of as that epoch in world history in which all human beings will see themselves in the same, indistinct situation. There will always be, Safranski argues, some need for understanding one’s own situation by drawing boundaries and conceptualizing ‘otherness’ and individuality. 


 

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R. Safranski, Philosopher and Writer

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According to current deabtes, ’individualization’ has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to ’globalization’. It has often seemed that nothing would be left once these processes have fully unfolded, other than individual human atoms dispersed on a globe without any political, economic or cultural structures.

Regardless of whether this description is based on any good and valid observation, nobody drew the conclusion that suddenly emerges as evident after reading Rüdiger Safranski’s lucid and timely exploration of the issue: globalization, if it occurs, means a radical change in the human condition. It brings human being in direct confrontation with the world in its totality. Almost unnoticed in broader debate, the scenario of globalization entails a return - in new a radical guise - of the time-honoured question of the ways of being-in-the-world of human beings.

In this compelling new book, the philosopher Rüdiger Safranski grapples with the pressing problems of the global age: ‘Big Brother’ states, terrorism, international security and the seeming impossibility of ‘world’ peace. He suggests that the era ofglobalization should not be thought of as that epoch in world history in which all human beings will see themselves in the same, indistinct situation. There will always be, Sanfranski argues, some need for understanding one’s own situation by drawing boundaries and conceptualizing ‘otherness’ and individuality.

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Editorial
Polity Press
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
0745633897
ISBN 13 
9780745633893
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Número de edición
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Número de páginas
96
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