Where is History Heading? Concerning the Idea of Progress

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents XIII
4. 1. Global Economy and Politics
5. The Political Subject in Globalization: the Discussion Agency 3
6. Complex Citizenship and Globalization 17
7. A Defense of Cooperative Cognition 33
8. Conceptualizing Capitalist Globalization 47
9. Liberalism’s All-inclusive Promise of Freedom and its Illiberal Effects: A Critique of the Concept of Globalization 63
10. Defense of ‘Soft’ Universalism or ‘Clash of Civilizations’ 79
11. The Places of Critical Universalism: Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches in Context 95
12. 2. Ethical Duty: Global Justice
13. The Thinning and Deformation of Ethical and Political Concepts in the Era of Globalization 109
14. Globalization, Inequalities and Justice 123
15. From a Bounded View to a Globalized Perspective: Considerations on a Human Right to Health 137
16. Who Are the Subjects of Justice in a Globalized World? From the ‘Unidimensional Identity’ to the ‘Diversity of Identities’ 153
17. Sustainable Intergenerational Justice and its Ends 167
18. Global Responsibility in a Historical Context 179
19. 3. On History of Globalization
20. Philosophical History at the Cusp of Globalization: Scottish Enlightenment Reflections on Colonial Spanish America 191
21. Jesuit Mission and the Globalization of Knowledge of the Americas: Florian Paucke’s Hin und Her in the Province of ‘Paraquaria’ During the Eighteenth Century 205
22. Urban Globalization and its Historicity: The Case of the Global Sanitary City in Mexico in the Nineteenth Century 225
23. A Land of Opportunities: Foreign Engineers in the Ottoman Empire 237
24. Cartographies of the ‘Eastern Question’: Some Considerations on Mapping the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea in the Nineteenth Century 253
25. The Effect of Dependency Theory on Discussions of ‘Underdevelopment’ in Turkey 269
26. The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism and the Problem of Temporalization—on the 100th Anniversary of Witold Kula’s Birth 287
27. 4. Globalization in the History of Philosophy
28. Globalization and Crisis of Values: Promise and Total Disappointment 301
29. Radical and Moderate Enlightenment? The Case of Diderot and Kant 315
30. Hospitality, Coercion and Peace in Kant 327
31. Critical Global Studies and Planetary History: New Perspectives on the Enlightenment 345
32. Globalization and Modernity in Marx and Postone 357
33. The Metaphysics of Globalization in Heidegger 369
34. Globalization as a Symbolic Form: Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Form as the Basis for a Theory of Globalization 379
35. 5. Theory of Globalization and Philosophy of History
36. Theory and Practice of Historical Writing in Times of Globalization 397
37. Koselleck—Foucault: The Birth and Death of Philosophy of History 409
38. Where is History Heading? Concerning the Idea of Progress 423
39. The Crisis of Historical Time at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: An Early Counterpoint Between Benjamin and Heidegger as a Crucial Issue for Thinking Modernity, Globalization and its Historical Space 435
40. A Philosophical Inquiry into the Future as a Category of Historical Time 449
41. Index of Persons 463