The Challenges of Globalization Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom

by Hicks, Steven V.; Shannon, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9781405173568
• ISBN10: 1405173564
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-05
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume contains eleven essays dealing with the question of how to face the current challenges of globalization. These essays examine topics ranging from global justice, international law, and human rights to ecoterrorism, cultural relativism, and the challenges of autonomy. Many of the essays included here discuss how a comprehensive ethical action is necessary in order to overcome repressive social, political, and cultural obstacles. Most of the essays in this volume were selected from the 2005 Sixth World Congress of the ISUD (International Society for Universal Dialogue) held in Helsinki, Finland. The volume is introduced by Steven V. Hicks, past President of the ISUD, who discusses the issues of cultural conflict and crisis in the aftermath of Nietzsche's philosophy.

Author Biography

Steven V. Hicks is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of numerous articles on Hegel, Nietzsche, and 19th-century German philosophy and literature. His books include International Law and the Possibility of a Just World Order (1999), Mythos and Logos: How to Regain the Love of Wisdom (2004), and Reading Nietzsche at the Margins (forthcoming 2007). He has served on the board of editorial consultants for the History of Philosophy Quarterly (2001-2004), and he is currently the editor of the special book series Universal Justice of Editions Rodopi. From 2003-2005 he served as president of the ISUD. An earlier version of this essay was presented as the Presidential Address at the inaugural session of the ISUD Sixth World Congress, University of Helsinki, Finland, July 15, 2005.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. 1
Editorial Introduction: Rethinking Nature, Culture, and Freedom	p. 7
Global Justice, Democracy, and Universal Dialogue
From a State of War to Perpetual Peace	p. 25
Discourse Ethics, Democracy, and International Law: Toward a Globalization of Practical Reason	p. 49
Rethinking Global Justice from the Perspective of All Living Nature and What Difference it Makes	p. 71
Human Rights, Global Justice, and Disaggregated States: John Rawls, Onora O'Neill, and Anne-Marie Slaughter	p. 87
Rethinking Nature: Globalization and the Challenges of Environmental Ethics
Beyond Intrinsic Value: Undermining the Justification of Ecoterrorism	p. 113
Does Kant Have Anything to Teach Us about Environmental Ethics?	p. 127
Rethinking Culture: Globalization and the Challenges of Interculturality
A Cultural Critique of Cultural Relativism	p. 151
Culture, Evil, and Horror	p. 173
Rethinking Freedom: Persons and the Challenges of Autonomy
Persons: Natural, Functional, or Ethical Kind?	p. 195
The Subject of Freedom at the End of History: Socialism Beyond Humanism	p. 217
Conclusion: The Challenges of Globalization-A Non-Western Perspective
A Rediscovery of Heaven-and-Human Oneness	p. 237
Index	p. 261
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