Publisher's preface
Preface

Introduction

Chapter one
From universalization to globalization

1. What Is Globalization?
   
2. Individuality-Based Universalism Versus Realistic Contextualism
   
   1. Definition and Forms of Universalism
      
   2. The Origins of Universalism
      
3. Globalization Versus Universalism

Chapter two
From religion to science to ideology

1. The Transcendental-Civilizational Framework
   
2. Modernity: The Immanent Framework of Rationality and Science
   
   1. The Disenchantment of the World
      
   2. Man As the Highest Creature of the Universe
      
   3. Voluntarism
      
3. Late Modernity: Technology and Contingent, Ever-Changing Fashions

Chapter three
The ethos of late modernity

1. Ethos, Pluralism and Globalization
   
2. Ethos, Meaning, and Symbolism
   
3. Ethos and Ethics
   
   1. Universalistic Versus Pluralistic Ethics
      
   2. Four Major Ethical Orientations
      The Ethics of Good Life
      Utilitarianism
      The Ethics of Right
      The Ethics of the Moral Self and Moral Freedom
      
4. Ethical Conflicts: Is Globalization Possible?
   
   1. The Ethics of World Renunciation
      
   2. The Ethics of Social Life
      
   3. The Monotheistic Ethics of Islam

Chapter four
Individuality, person, and community

1. Differentiation Between Individuals and Persons
   
   1. The Conceptual Difference
      
   2. The Differences of Identity
      
   3. The Nihilistic Dimension of Individuality in Late Modernity
      
2. The Encompassing Community of Culture
   
   1. Differentiation Between Community and Other Human Groups
      
   2. The Collective Identity of the Community
      
   3. The Primordial Culturally-Conditioned Community: The Nation

Chapter five
The focal point of globalization: society

1. The Nature of Society
   
2. Major Features of Modern Society
   
   1. Society As the Focus of 'Sacralized' Human Life
      
   2. Social Structure: Dialectics of Permanence and Change
      
   3. Fundamental Dissonance and Fragmentation
      
   4. Belief In Progress and Consumerism
      
3. The Metamorphosis of National Society Into a Society of Citizens
   
4. The Imperative of Human Rights in a World of Citizens
   
5. The Essence of Controlled Society
   
6. From Controlled to Risk Society

Chapter six
A Jeffersonian Critique of the unholy marriage of state, democracy and bureaucracy in modernity

1. The Standard View: The Differentiation of the Political Sphere in Modernity
   
2. The Concept of the Modern State
   
3. The Two Faces of the Modern State: Territory and National Sovereignty
   
   1. Territory
      
   2. National Sovereignty
      
   3. Whither the Nation-State?
      
4. The Democratic State
   
   1. The Republican Democratic State
      
   2. The Egalitarian Democratic State
      
5. The Bureaucratic State and Civil Society
   
6. The Inter-Statal System
   
7. Regionalism and Regionalization: The Jeffersonian Vision Reaffirmed

Chapter seven
Globalization, technology, and the present economic crisis

1. Economic Globalization Defined
   
2. Reasons for the Globalization of Capitalist Market Development
   
3. Advantages and Disadvantages of Economic Globalization in Late Modernity
   
   1. Advantages - Present and Past
      Improvement of Living Conditions
      Extension of Educational Possibilities
      Breaking Down of Distances in Space and Time
      Economic Development in non-Western Civilizations
      Political and Social Benefits of Economic Globalization
      
   2. Disadvantages - Present and Future
      Loss of Values or the Predominance of Materialism
      Open-ended Expectations of Rights and Entitlements
      The Disappearance of Spatial and Temporal Dimensions
      The Impossibility of Economic Prediction
      Science and Technological Development
      Modernization Through Imposed Patterns and Models
4. Economic Globalization and the Future
   
   1. The World Market
      Fundamental Changes in Production Systems and Labor Requirements
      Not So Free Trade and Competition
      Transnational Economic Regionalism
      
   2. Welfare and Social Problems
      
   3. Economic Globalization and Democracy
      
   4. Moral Transformation and Economic Future

Chapter eight
Globalization and the environment

1. Conceptual Definitions
   
2. What Does the Environmental Crisis Mean?
   
3. Global Ecological Management
   
4. The Ecological Revolutionary Perspective
   
   1. The Re-Sacralization of Nature Through the De-Sacralization of Man
      
   2. Re-Sacralization of Nature Through the De-Sacralization of Reason
      
   3. De-Sacralizing Technology and the Market As Instruments of the Domination of Nature
      
5. The Only Road to a Genuine Ecological Revolution: A New Morality
   
6. Ecological Revolution and Globalization

Epilogue
Reference list
Index
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