A Berlin Diptych
In: Debatte: review of contemporary German affairs, Volume 10, Issue 2, p. 221-229
ISSN: 1469-3712
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In: Debatte: review of contemporary German affairs, Volume 10, Issue 2, p. 221-229
ISSN: 1469-3712
In: Third world quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 6, p. 930-941
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Review of Indonesian and Malaysian affairs: RIMA, Volume 34, Issue 2, p. 99-127
ISSN: 0034-6594, 0815-7251
In: Third world quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 6, p. 931-942
ISSN: 0143-6597
Throughout human history, the idea of moral universalism has repeatedly appeared, but always in some less than universalistic, & hence morally compromised, form: in the religious imagination & culture, in the ideologies of liberalism & official socialism & in the liberal theory of the state, & in the informing worldview of the modern human & social sciences, especially anthropology. This discussion raises the question whether, & poses the possibility that, despite all the travails that globalization processes are unleashing worldwide (& perhaps even unknown to, & despite the political preferences of, many of globalization's more ardent champions), the present era of advancing globalization may be ushering in a truly historical moment & change in the history of the human moral imagination. By producing for the first time, no matter how unevenly, a single, interdependent humankind &, in prospect if not yet in actuality, a single worldwide human community, globalization processes may be producing an objective, experiential basis for the emergence of a genuine & uncompromised moral universalism: as a successor to, & to transcend, the sequence of selective intimations & incomplete intuitions of human universality that has hitherto constituted the history of humankind's moral imagination. Adapted from the source document.
In: Asian studies review, Volume 17, Issue 3, p. 125-131
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: Asian studies review, Volume 15, Issue 2, p. 57-73
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 13-14
In: Modern Asian studies, Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 134-139
ISSN: 1469-8099
In: Modern Asian studies, Volume 6, Issue 1, p. 120-123
ISSN: 1469-8099
In: International affairs, Volume 46, Issue 4, p. 873-874
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: Third world quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 6, p. 1013-1026
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Third world quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 6, p. 1013-1026
ISSN: 0143-6597
The Asian economic crisis of 1997 highlighted the inherent instability of the new worldwide economic order being created by highly mobile capital, & also its destabilizing social & political effects, especially in the transitional societies that had proved so hospitable to the champions of globalization & to proffered capital inputs. Whether these societies are destined to be subsumed & captured by globalization processes, or whether they & their citizens have any possibility of capturing some genuine benefits from advancing globalization, may rest on whether these transitional states & societies can assert, or at least influence, the terms of their engagement with those processes. This will not be possible, however, if people, societies & states capitulate in advance to the forces & processes of globalization as irresistible. This issue is explored through the grounded investigation of four key questions: Do globalization processes serve any ends beyond themselves? How might one grasp the best, & make the most, of globalization? Is the logic of the market immutable & inflexible transculturally, or is it amenable to varying forms of cultural inflection & political supervision? Can what globalization delivers be drawn upon selectively, or is it instead a "package deal"? 146 References. Adapted from the source document.
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 367
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 58-66
In: Man: the journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 362