FAREWELL DIFFERENCE. A FEW COMMENTS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF GLOBALIZATION
FAREWELL DIFFERENCE. A FEW COMMENTS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF GLOBALIZATION
Author(s): Claude KarnoouhSubject(s): Globalization
Published by: Editura Academiei Forțelor Aeriene „Henri Coandă”
Keywords: globalization; postmodernity; difference; standardization;
Summary/Abstract: More than twenty-five years ago I published a book: Farewell to the differences, translated into Romanian. In this book there was a chapter devoted to a commentary on Husserl's 1935 text on the Crisis of European consciousness. I think that since the factors of standardization, in particular economics, militaries, scientific and cultural have strengthened, and today offering the spectacle of a planet where the differences become more and more microscopic, which does not mean that conflicts are less acute. As the German historian Nolte wrote about the Second World War, it was the largest Weltburgerkrieg (World Civil War) we may think that we are currently faced with the same phenomenon extended to all the peoples of the planets
Journal: Redefining Community in Intercultural Context
- Issue Year: 7/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 51-54
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English