Building Towers. Perspectives on Globalisation

edited by L. Anckaert, D. Cassimon and H.J. Opdebeeck

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Extent: 268 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Ethical Perspectives Monograph Series

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

(Paperback) (Published)

(October 2002)

ISBN: 9789042912359

Price: $43.00

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This volume contains the papers delivered at a colloquium on globalisation at the UFSIA in 2002. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach in the context of which several perspectives on globalisation are developed. The starting-point of the colloquium was a paper by Hendrik Opdebeeck with the title ‘The globalisation discourse and the waning of ethical endeavour’. The issue at stake in this text is a personalistic approach towards a socially and economically most pressing phenomenon. This approach also occurs within a critical atmosphere which clearly points to distortions with respect to ethics. Within a personalistic perspective, founded in a Christian tradition of ethical discourse, it is not a sheer adaptation or legitimisation that is opted for, but a profound and critical reading of the signs of the times.

  • Edited by L Anckaert
  • Edited by D Cassimon
  • Edited by HJ Opdebeeck