Clobalization, community and public space
Abstract
In this article we treat globalization as the historical context in which multiculturalism and intercultural communication emerged. We discuss the contrast between political liberalism and communitarianism and argue that in most contemporary societies the issue of identity is posed in terms of community.
However, one can not assume a single meaning of ‘community’. Rather, its content varies in different theoretical paradigms and historical contexts. We propose that the meaning of ‘community’ can be traced in cultural analysis, as well as modem social and political theory. Additionaly, we maintain that adopting a non communitarian understanding of ‘community’ may promote the convergence between liberalism and communitarianism.
Nevertheless, it is difficult to meet this very condition: the communitarian mentality feeds from the romantic understanding of the relationship between the private and the public sphere, evident in the 19th century. This relationship, institutionalized in the context of what Richard Sennett calls ‘intimate society’, is burdened by a nostalgic return to unmediated forms of social symbiosis.
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Δεμερτζής Ν. (2015). Clobalization, community and public space. Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, 4, 53–78. https://doi.org/10.12681/sas.738
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