Gadamer’s vision for the modern world was of a global multi-culture that revelled in encountering other points of view and sought to grow through those meetings. He envisioned a culture willing to sacrifice fixed truths and unchanging traditions for the vitality of discovery, change and cultural evolution. The Gadamerian ethics of dialogue and understanding addressed the needs of a twentieth century that was in the midst of multi-cultural migration, sensitive to the genocidal dangers of prejudice and fast becoming ‘global’ through the influence of the media, travel and increasingly cosmopolitan cultures. His dialogues with Habermas and later discussions about nuclear threats and environmental co-operation both sounded a warning and recalled to him utopian experiences from the poetry groups and classrooms of Marburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg. In the later years of his career Gadamer insisted on the value of global diversity, and in this final chapter we look at the Gadamerian approach to cultural relations, global creativity, conflict resolution and the possibility of a shared future global growth.

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Globalism: The Organic Unity

  • Jessica Frazier

摘要

Gadamer’s vision for the modern world was of a global multi-culture that revelled in encountering other points of view and sought to grow through those meetings. He envisioned a culture willing to sacrifice fixed truths and unchanging traditions for the vitality of discovery, change and cultural evolution. The Gadamerian ethics of dialogue and understanding addressed the needs of a twentieth century that was in the midst of multi-cultural migration, sensitive to the genocidal dangers of prejudice and fast becoming ‘global’ through the influence of the media, travel and increasingly cosmopolitan cultures. His dialogues with Habermas and later discussions about nuclear threats and environmental co-operation both sounded a warning and recalled to him utopian experiences from the poetry groups and classrooms of Marburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg. In the later years of his career Gadamer insisted on the value of global diversity, and in this final chapter we look at the Gadamerian approach to cultural relations, global creativity, conflict resolution and the possibility of a shared future global growth.