Global Fragments offers an innovative analysis of globalization that aims to circumvent the sterile dichotomies that either praise or demonize globalization. Eduardo Mendieta applies an interdisciplinary approach to one of the most fundamental experiences of globalization: the mega-urbanization of humanity. The claim that globalization unsettles our epistemic maps of the world is tested against a study of Latin America. Mendieta also recontextualizes the work of three major theorists of globalization—Enrique Dussel, Cornel West, and Jürgen Habermas—to show how their thinking reflects engagement with central problems of globalization and, conversely, how globalization itself is exemplified through the reception of their work. Beyond the epistemic hubris of social theories that seek to accept or reject a globalized world, Mendieta calls for a dialogic cosmopolitanism that departs from the mutuality of teaching and learning in a world that is global but not totalized.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Epistemic Hubris and Dialogical Cosmopolitanism
Part I. Globalizations
1. Philosophizing Globalizations
2. Invisible Cities: A Phenomenology of Globalization from Below
Part II. Latinamericanisms
3. From Modernity, through Postmodernity, to Globalization: Mapping Latin America
4. Remapping Latin American Studies: Postcolonialism, Subaltern Studies, Postoccidentalism, and Globalization Theory
5. The Emperor’s Map: Latin American Critiques of Globalism
Part III. Critical Theory
6. Beyond Universal History: Enrique Dussel’s Critique of Globalization
7. Politics in an Age of Planetarization: Enrique Dussel’s Critique of Political Reason
8. The Linguistification of the Sacred as a Catalyst of Modernity: Jürgen Habermas on Religion
9. Which Pragmatism? Whose America? On Cornel West
Index
About the author
Eduardo Mendieta is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of
The Adventures of Transcendental Philosophy: Karl-Otto Apel’s Semiotics and Discourse Ethics and the editor of
Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty.
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