Globalization and its determinative influence upon the humanities: A semiotic/hermeneutic diagnosis
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Youzheng Li
Abstract
Globalization is the global expansion of economic-cultural capitalism. The term “capitalism” today may mainly refer to the special economic mode shared by most countries regardless of their different political systems. The original essence of capitalism lies in the self-profit motive and commercial activities. Globalization makes this essence also penetrated into all aspects of society, culture and academia resulting in the systematically weakening of the scientific character of the humanities. The latter should be advanced to human sciences in order to be capable of balancing the cultural materialism caused by globalization. For carrying out this scientific task a subjective ethics is requested to form a minority of theoretical volunteers devoted to this revolutionary mission for reorganizing the humanities. The paper asserts that a multi-dimensional causal relationship exists between the materialist-globalization, renovation of the humanities, and subjective ethics.
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