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In: Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization

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This article is devoted to one of the most pressing topics of the modern world: globalization, which the author understands, first of all, as an objectively historical process. The author analyzes the history of social structures, connections, and relations from the philosophical point of view, including at the local, regional, and eventually global scale. In the twentieth century, globalization is now the subject of close attention by scientists and philosophers, and increasingly informs our awareness of the integrity of our world and the common destiny of the world community. Referring to the rich international theoretical heritage on this topic, as well as to the results of the work of the last seven World Philosophical Congresses, the author shows the ever-increasing dynamics of interest in global studies. At the same time, special attention is paid to the formation of a new interdisciplinary field of scientific knowledge—globalistics, for which philosophy plays a critical ideological, methodological, integrative, ethical, axiological, etc. role. The final part of the article is devoted to the development prospects of the world community, as well as individual countries and peoples. The ability to overcome global challenges is linked to the worldview of people, the formation and strengthening of a new ethic in the broad public consciousness, and the development of culture and its humanization. According to the author, such a worldview should be based on a new humanism, focused on a holistic perception of the world, the formation of global consciousness and responsibility, as well as a system of universal human ethical norms and values.

In: Philosophical Aspects of Globalization: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry

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The author analyzes the problem of social progress in the context of the historical stages of development: savagery – barbarism – civilization. I show how, under the influence of the Great Geographical Discoveries, the variety of continental empires was replenished with maritime (colonial) empires. Globalization has given them a powerful impetus for their development. Then, from the XX century, empires ceased to meet the requirements of the changed times. The empire, as a form of organization of social life, turned out to be ineffective in the modern global world and entered into an acute phase of antagonistic contradictions with it.

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In: Journal of Chinese Philosophy

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The article analyzes the main parameters of the modern world development, its architectonics and the most important development trends. Modern communications and principles of interaction of various social systems are also considered. As a result, the most significant cultural-cum-civilizational systems are distinguished – the West, China, the Islamic world and Russia, which represent four global trends or four vectors of power that fundamentally affect the current state and prospects of world development. It is emphasized that the West and China have a global strategy, provided by objective circumstances. The Islamic world and Russia occupy an important geopolitical position and also have a special status in the global world.

In: Journal of Chinese Philosophy
For over a quarter century Russian scholars have operated apart from past ideological constraints and have been discussing in new ways the most acute problems of Russia and of the world community as a whole. Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization makes available in English current research by leading thinkers in Russia in philosophy, political theory, and related fields. At the international level, one group of essays articulates Russian perspectives on key global issues. At the national level, another group of essays delivers analyses of the global dimensions in a variety of current issues in Russia. Taken together, the fourteen chapters of this book demonstrate the relevance and vitality of contemporary Russian philosophy to the study of globalization.

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Akop P. Nazaretyan, Alexander N. Chumakov, Alexander V. Katsura, Anastasia V. Mitrofanova, Ilia V. Ilyin, Ivan A. Aleshkovskiy, Leonid E. Grinin, Olga G. Leonova, Pavel S. Seleznev, Sergey A. Nikolsky, Tatiana A. Alekseeva, Valentina G. Fedotova, Vladimir N. Porus, Vladimir V. Mironov, William C. Gay, Yakov A. Plyais
In: Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization
In: Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization
In: Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization
Russian Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century: An Anthology provides the English-speaking world with access to post-Soviet philosophic thought in Russia for the first time. The Anthology presents the fundamental range of contemporary philosophical problems in the works of prominent Russian thinkers. In contrast to the “single-mindedness” of Soviet-era philosophers and the bias toward Orthodox Christianity of émigré philosophers, it offers to its readers the authors’ plurality of different positions in widely diverse texts. Here one finds strictly academic philosophical works and those in an applied, pragmatic format—secular and religious—that are dedicated to complex social and political matters, to pressing cultural topics or insights into international terrorism, as well as to contemporary science and global challenges.
Globalization is a defining characteristic of our contemporary world, with a reach and impact affecting all nations and peoples. Philosophical Aspects of Globalization is a collection of essays by leading contemporary Russian philosophers, scholars, and scientists concerned with addressing pressing issues of globalization from a philosophical point of view. The thirty-four authors who have contributed to this book represent a range of approaches and subfields of Global Studies in Russia, including topics such as theory of globalization, globalization and the environment, history and geopolitics, and globalization in cultural context. When compiled together in a single collection of essays, their work offers the English-speaking reader a comprehensive picture of new directions in Russian Global Studies in the twenty-first century, as well as demonstrates the importance of questions of globalization for philosophical inquiry in Russia today.