The cultures of globalization / edited by Fredric Jameson and Masao Miyoshi. - xvii, 393 p. : ill.

Includes index.

Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Globalization and Philosophy -- Beyond Eurocentrism: The World-System and the Limits of Modernity -- Globalization, Civilization Processes, and the Relocation of Languages and Cultures -- Notes on Globalization as a Philosophical Issue -- Alternative Localities -- Global Fragments: A Second Latinamericanism -- Toward a Regional Imaginary in Africa -- Negotiating African Culture: Toward a Decolonization of the Fetish -- The End of Free States: On Transnationalization of Culture -- Is There an Alternative to (Capitalist) Globalization? The Debate about Modernity in China -- Culture and the Nation -- Globalization and Culture: Navigating the Void -- Nations and Literatures in the Age of Globalization -- Media in a Capitalist Culture -- "Globalization," Culture, and the University -- Consumerism and Ideology -- Dollarization, Fragmentation, and God -- Social Movements and Global Capitalism -- "Environmental Justice" (Local and Global) -- What's Green and Makes the Environment Go Round? -- Free Trade and Free Market: Pretense and Practice -- In Place of a Conclusion -- Index -- Contributors. I. II. III. IV.

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