Symposium: “Cosmopolitanism versus Globalization”
508 O'BrianThere is an increasingly obvious conflict between the culture of a genuine cosmopolitanism, originating in the qualitative creativity of local contexts yet in communication with a worldwide Republic of Letters, and globalization, with its quantitative anti-culture of commodification, cost-benefit, and publicity motivated by monetary profiteering. Of this conflict, Pierre Bourdieu, in Firing Back (2001) wrote: […]