‘Cosmos’, the ‘order of the Universe’, and the ‘Spheres of the World’: the traditon of the conceptualization of ‘globalization’ in the discourse of philosophy
Philosophy has until present time a stable usage of the term and concept of the ‘sphere’ as a part of the representation of the world around us. We trace this path of the ‘sphere’ in the Western philosophy and the status the concepts of ‘world’, ‘universe’, and ‘sphere’ had for the worldview of philosophers in the history of the Western culture. We will show that recently European philosophers have joint this concept of the ‘sphere’ with the idea of ‘globalization’. But before the emergence of ‘globalization’ the previous conceptualizations of the ‘world’ in philosophy have had a different function than in contemporary political and economic thinking of the discourse of ‘globalization’. For the philosopher it established the reality, which surrounds the human, while the economic and political proponents of ‘globalization’ describe and use ‘globalization’ as a process they are performing. Even the contemporary philosophers using ‘globalization’ refer to this complex discourse.
Key words:
History of Globalization - History of European Philosophy - Discourse Studies - 'Public Sphere' - Conceptualization - Global Discourse - Cultural History of Globalization
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Journal “Diacronia” ISSN: 2393-1140 Frequency: 2 issues / year