Philosophical Problems Today World and Worldhood /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kemp, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Philosophical Problems Today ; 3
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Aesthetics.; Political philosophy.; Philosophy, general.; Philosophy of Technology.; Political Philosophy.; Philosophy of Man.

In this book philosophers try to answer the following question: What is globalization and what does ‘globe’ or ‘world’ (monde) signify? Rémi Brague returns to the Greek idea of the cosmos in order to track the worldhood (mondanéité) of the world, that is, the process by which the idea of the world i...

Table of Contents:

• The Globalization of the World
• L’Homme Du Monde
• Philosophy of Technology
• Economics
• La Technique D’aujourd’hui et Les Problémes D’esthétique
• Politics
• Reasonability and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Arendt, Korsgaard and Rawls.