In this book philosophers try to answer the following question: What is
globalization and what does "globe" or "world" (monde) signify? Rémi
Brague returns to the Greek idea of the cosmos in order to track the
worldhood (mondanéité) of the world, that is, the process by which the
idea of the world is formed. Don Ihde shows how a world has developed,
in which technologies are no longer considered neutral means serving the
ends of human action, but become the very means by which people exist in
the world. Vittorio Mathieu describes the economical world at two
levels - that of the individual and that of society. Tomonobu Imamichi
analyses the capacity of aesthetic experience to disclose a world other
than the world of technological efficiency. Francisco Miró Quesada C.
emphasises that the great political questions are not solvable without
worldviews that express value systems. David Rasmussen describes sensus
communis as a cosmopolitan concept, which founds a political
globalization of the world. And Peter Kemp attempts to grasp the meaning
of that globalization upon which the destiny of our planet depends.