Pub Date : 2018-06-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110492415-028
Lucas von Ramin
: The aim of this paper is to investigate and problematize the present status of theories of globalization. Because of the actual diversity of these theories, a philosophical definition must be able to include this diversity without becom-ing meaningless. This paper claims that Ernst Cassirer ’ s philosophy of culture — especially his Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923 – 1929) — is particularly suitable for providing a uniform access. The first part therefore examines an understanding of such symbolic forms; it shows on the one hand the problems of classical theories, and on the other hand the advantage of a functional access of cultural production, provided through the concept of Cassirer ’ s elaboration of the conditions of possibility of culture and meaning. The paper then identifies the different aspects of globalization as a symbolic form, including the way it became a picture of the world, changed the understandings of space and time, is an inter-pretive paradigm and myth, and finally has consequences for the construction of subjectivity and identity. In a summarizing section, the paper highlights the paradoxical structure of globalization as its constituent moment. With the concept of symbolic forms, this awareness of contingency can be understood as a specific way of comprehending, related to our time and its cultural processing and man-aging strategies. In conclusion, there is much to suggest that the concept of globalization should be treated as a world image. Only then can one understand why globalization has become a symbol of our time: on the one hand, it occupies itself with universalistic claims; on the other, it is permeated by particular anxiet-ies. It has become difficult to escape the concept of globalization. Not only does it consistently shape the media and academic discourse — our lives are also directly affected by the consequences of globalization. However, more detailed inquiries reveal that the phenomena to which globalization relates vary widely. This is true for everyday use, as well as for scientific use: a uniform definition of globalization does not exist. Therefore, the aim cannot be to search for a unique definition or something that all things meant by globalization have
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Pub Date : 2018-06-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110492415-fm
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Pub Date : 2018-06-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110492415-013
I. Franco
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Pub Date : 2018-06-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110492415-031
A. Ratto
: In recent times, the question of the sense of history, the future and what is to come seems to have become an obsolete issue. The aim of this paper is to assess, in light of a series of considerations about the idea of ‘ progress ’ , the possibilities of restoring this question in the context of discussions in the field of the philosophy of history, which have relegated these kinds of issues to the background and have confined specialists to the area of the epistemology of history or literary theory.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110492415-003
Alejandro Meraz
This chapter reflects upon the importance the notion of citizenship has acquired in the context of globalization. I will defend the idea that the citizen and his or her actions correspond to the political domain; specifically, in a way that confronts the problem of social order. To accomplish my objective, I have divided the chapter into three parts: a) I will define the idea of the citizen inherited from the Enlightenment; b) I will present an idea of complex citizenship and suggest why we should consider it as an alternative; and c) I will offer an interpretation designed to understand political actions from the perspective of complex citizenship.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110492415-012
A. R. Mendez
: This article states that the idea of national citizenship, bound to rights and duties circumscribed to a State, is no longer fit to reflect upon the political challenges of a globalizing world. Instead, I argue in favor of the ‘ diversity of identities ’ as a ‘ political heuristic ’ that offers an alternative frame to the question about who is the subject of justice. Our current understanding of the political and social action lacks of something: the concept of a citizen that we inherit from Modernity — the citizen as the subject of rights and duties — doesn ’ t let us explain its current dynamics in a globalizing world. Problems such as migration, refugees and contemporary social movements, among others, have led us to problematize two ideas associated with that concept: a) citizenship is defined based on exclusively national rights and duties, that is, those which are circumscribed to a politically and geographically well limited territory; and b) a State ’ s citizens are the only subjects for whom justice is understood as the equal distribution of those rights and duties. But the paradigms of national citizenship and just distribution are being undermined by globalization ’ s dynamics, since we are shown that their effects are transna-tional and that the expressions against these effects can also have a global character. This context rushes us to find new forms of understanding for those transformations, as well as the political action of people. To meet this challenge, this work argues in favor of the idea of the ‘ diversity of identities ’ as a way to understand people close to their concrete experiences of injustice, and as a ‘ political heuristic ’ that lets us offer an alternative frame to national citizenship as an answer to the question about who are the subjects of justice in a globalizing world.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-11DOI: 10.1515/9783110492415-005
Franz-J. Heilgendorff
The philosophical theory of globalization is predominantly comprised of a critique of modern globalization, which is based on a theory of equal distribution of goods and guided by universal ethical principles. I argue that philosophical ethics cannot approach the problem in a different way, because of a lacking concept of society. The lack of a theory of society necessitates arguing with universal principles: philosophers focus on poverty and suffering as such, rather than on poverty and suffering generated by the process of globalization. From the perspective of Marx’s critique of political economy, the empirical perception of human society leads to a mystified and overly simplistic analysis of social interaction. This means that only a conceptual theory of society can reveal the hidden relationship between economical categories. It thereby enables a more complex and adequate critique of globalization than the positivistic theory and its solution to the problems provided by philosophical ethics. Based on a theory of capitalist society, the universalist promises of philosophy will not simply be criticized as illusions, but are recognized as realistic opportunities based on cooperative productive capacities to be liberated from their current alienated forms. Thus, globalization ultimately—in its alienated form—generates the basis for the universal principles that are used by philosophy for its critique of globalization.
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