Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Globalization as the Universalist Theory and Ambitendency of its Revelations

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2009 2 (3)
Authors
Gerasimenko, Anastasiya A.
Contact information
Anastasiya A. Gerasimenko Siberian Federal University, 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041 Russia E-mail address:
Keywords
euro-centrism; natural globalization; enforced globalization; meta-ideology; political being and sphere
Abstract

Russian society reforming must be to a large extent correlated with globalization processes, which determine the leading directions of human life. Though, globalization is one of the forms of attempts to universalize the world society, and it is important to distinguish natural globalization (Internet and so on) and artificial one (enforced) globalization. Though, to our mind, there lies euro-centrism in the basis of globalization, and that is why in order to understand the essence of modern globalization processes one needs to research euro-centrism as the ideological basis of globalization. In the history of western civilization development, the myths, declaring a special position of Europe, are known to be built up already on the educational system level. This widespread modern western society conception considers Europe not as a geographical notion, but as a civilizational one. We can call euro-centrism to be a meta-ideology of the West, because separate confronting ideologies being also developed within its frames (for example, Liberalism and Marxism). It is important, that they proceed from one and the same world picture and one and the same postulates about historical way of the West. To our mind, the euro-centrism becoming and the symptoms of its crisis upon the modern conditions prove that the given process is closely connected to globalization and crucially influences the process of reforming of all the aspects of Russian social life renewal.

Pages
295-300
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/996

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