Political philosophies of the global : a critical overview

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    Abstract

    Despite a long tradition of universalizing philosophies, it is relatively recently that debates explicitly calling for a systematic global ethics have extended beyond the work of philosophers, critics and clerics. In the 1990s, global ethics became for the first time a regularized and institutionalized part of global politics linked to the generalization of a globalizing civil society. The term ‘global civil society’ is itself a recent term. For centuries, philosophers have debated political philosophies of universal, global or world-wide human relations, but a series of moments in the 1990s stand out as marking a concerted and explicit call for political formalization of ethics at a global level.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationGlobalization and Politics. Vol. 4: Political Philosophies of the Global
    EditorsPaul James
    Place of PublicationU.K.
    PublisherSage
    Pagesvii-xxx
    Number of pages24
    ISBN (Print)9781412919555
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Keywords

    • globalization
    • ethics
    • politics

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