Publications 2012
Humanity and Difference in the Global Age
Table of Contents
Introduction
Humanity and difference in the global age
Candido Mendes
Occidentalism and Post-Occidentalism
Globalization, cultural translation and the construction of multicentric modernities
Wang Ning
The role of BRICS countries in the becoming world order: “humanity,” colonial/imperial differences, and the racial distribution of capital and knowledge
Walter D. Mignolo
Technology and World Civilization
The question concerning technology today
Gianni Vattimo
The Freudian robot: rethinking the human and the machine
Lydia H. Liu
A contemporary significance on Chinese traditional mode of thinking
He Xirong
Reinventions and Interactions
Humanism at the sight of contemporaneity
Candido Mendes
Politics after indignation
Daniel Innerarity
The only emergency is the lack of events
Santiago Zabala
Spaces of Difference (Part I)
La “clôture” européenne
François L’Yvonnet
Contemporary creativity and the redesign of relations between author and work: the exhaustion of the creative burst
Maria Isabel Mendes de Almeida
Spaces of Difference (Part II)
Seeing Global
Susan Buck-Morss
Humanisme créole en Afrique
Mario Lucio Sousa
Mapping the Global Age (Part I)
Brazil, China, and the emergence of the South
Renato Janine Ribeiro
Sciences et technologies: des représentations modernes aux images postmodernes
Gilbert Hottois
Mariátegui and the Andean revolutionarism
Javier Sanjinés C
Mapping the Global Age (Part II)
Lessons from Mount Lu: China and cross-cultural understanding
Zhang Longxi
“Small” countries and “large” countries: the case of Uruguay in Mercosur and Unasur
Gerardo Caetano
Virtue in human practice: a comparative perspective
Yang Guorong