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
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)
