Responsibility in Context: Perspectives - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9400791437 ISBN 13 : 9789400791435

Editeur : Springer, 2014

Synopsis

Arne Johan Vetlesen Ours is the era of globalisation. This means that the world is expanding; pressing a key, I can immediately reach persons living in another continent; products travel across the world to the store just around the corner from me; thanks to modern media, I am cognisant of events taking place right now thousands of kilometers away. The world is expanding in the sense that yesterday’s time-space limits are rendered irrelevant; my communications, my needs, my aspirations, transcend all such givens. Whatever confronts me as part of my here-and-now, as making up my present contextuality, I can – and will – easily transcend and leave it behind. That the world is expanding means I am expanding, insofar as my range of action, my horizon for thinking, indeed for existing, is perpetually expanding. Expansion as such is forever-happening; it is without limits. This is what we are being told about the nature of globalisation. It rings true; or more to the point, it sounds trivial. But perhaps it is neither. Let’s make a new start. Ours is the era of globalisation. This means that the world is shrinking. It is becoming smaller and smaller. It imposes itself upon me, wherever I go, whatever I undertake to do. It exerts all kinds of pressure from all kinds of directions, on all kinds of levels: psychologically no less than physically.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This text probes many questions related to various aspects of responsibility for others. It uses real-life situations as a starting point to challenge the current trend science in which concepts are kidnapped from their native contexts and recycled elsewhere.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9400791437
• ISBN 13: 9789400791435
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Éditeur: Ognjenovic Gorana
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