Building Towers (Paperback)

L. Anckaert

ISBN 10: 9042912359 / ISBN 13: 9789042912359

Published by Peeters Publishers, Leuven, 2003

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Paperback. Moral reflection abut many fundamental social developments often remain quite marginal. Greater specialisation has tended to impair the communication between science, technology, academic philosophy, religion and ethics. The result of this tendency is that our society often lacks the critical sense to ask about the ethical importance of major governmental, industrial and economic decisions. The word globalisation bears the character of a chameleon, which takes different shapes in ever-changing contexts. On the one hand, the term refers to an economic developmental stage at which the human polis, under the influence of neo-liberal views of society is structured by the free market. On the other hand the terms refers to a cosmopolitan world citizenship in the frame of which a righteous, sustainable and democratic society is realised. Building Towers takes a multidisciplinary approach in the context of several perspectives on globalisation. The diversity of interpretations of globalisation can critically explore the kind of reality currently generated by words and deeds of people. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Towers (Paperback)
• Publisher: Peeters Publishers, Leuven
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042912359
• ISBN 13: 9789042912359
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This volume contains the papers delivered at a colloquium on globalisation at the UFSIA in 2002. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach in the context of which several perspectives on globalisation are developed. The starting-point of the colloquium was a paper by Hendrik Opdebeeck with the title 'The globalisation discourse and the waning of ethical endeavour'. The issue at stake in this text is a personalistic approach towards a socially and economically most pressing phenomenon. This approach also occurs within a critical atmosphere which clearly points to distortions with respect to ethics. Within a personalistic perspective, founded in a Christian tradition of ethical discourse, it is not a sheer adaptation or legitimisation that is opted for, but a profound and critical reading of the signs of the times.