Philosophy of Globalization

Preface

Taking a critical and nuanced position on the phenomenon of globalization has become increasingly difficult in our time. Only recently, it seemed the positions were clear. When the opening up of the world market and the emergence of new digital networks palpably increased the pace of globalization in the 1970s, and when this process again accelerated to breathtaking speed after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, advocates and opponents of globalization made their respective cases in clearly contrasting terms.

On one side were the proponents of globalization, who saw free trade and cross-border communication as a gain for the development of humankind. After the notion of the ‘global village’ had made the rounds, ‘one world’ gained currency ...