Segesvary Victor: FROM ILLUSION TO DELUSION – Globalization and the Contradictions of Late Modernity

VICTOR SEGESVARY : FROM ILLUSION TO DELUSION – Globalization and the Contradictions of Late Modernity

It was in the course of my research concerning inter-civilizational relations that I became aware of an
unfolding historical process consisting of two developments, set in motion by the de-colonization movement
at the end of World War II. The first is the growing importance of inter-civilizational encounters which
represent a fundamental turn in the contemporary world and, probably, will dominate the world scene in the
future. The second of these developments, closely linked to the first, is that in our age the universalistic
dream of the past is slowly fading away.

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The present study is on contemporary problems, and not a philological or literary examination of classical
and historical texts.

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