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‘ConcateNations’: Globalisation in a Spinozist Context

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In little more than a decade, everybody in the Western world has become remarkably fluent in the ‘global talk’. Although few among us could precisely define the words we use so commonly, we all see ourselves as living in a ‘global’ (globalised, globalising) world. Even if we usually shy away from the implications of this obvious reality, we are all aware of the inter-connectedness that is the fabric of our everyday life, from wearing clothes ‘made in Indonesia’ to seeing our pension funds divest from Brazil or Argentina.

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Citton, Y. (2007). ‘ConcateNations’: Globalisation in a Spinozist Context. In: Morgan, D., Banham, G. (eds) Cosmopolitics and the Emergence of a Future. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230210684_6

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