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As the title of this book indicates, my subject has been “Humanity in a Global Era.” In the world in which we live, the concept of Humanity and the process of globalization, together, require us to reflect anew on what it means to be human. This concept and this process are ineluctably tied to one another. We can think of the concept of Humanity as mainly a matter of a new level of consciousness. We can do the same with the process of globalization, reducing it to a material change that brings humans into greater economic connections. As soon as we phrase it in this manner, we realize how myopic our formulation is: for Humanity, I have been arguing, is taking on actual legal existence as well as materiality in the form of social integration, while the globalization process in turn is not merely economic (as if such a thing could be, outside the reigning disciplines) but political, social, cultural, and intellectual as well.
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Cf. Alexander Geppert, “Cosmic Visions: Outer Space, Extraterrestrial Life, and the European Imagination, 1923–1975” (paper, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, December 12, 2007). As I was unable to attend, Geppert sent me the notes for his talk, which I have found enormously suggestive and inspiring. See, for example, p. 1 of these notes. He was also kind enough to read this epilogue and comment on it. I look forward eagerly to the publication of his full article.
Bruce Mazlish, ed., The Railroad and the Space Program: An Exploration in Historical Analogy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965), 52. Looking back it seems as if I had been sleepwalking to this present book for a long time.
Casanova, “Religion, the New Millennium, and Globalization,” Sociology of Religion (2001): 422.
Martin Albrow, “Hiroshima: The First Global Event” (paper, workshop on Collective Memory and Collective Knowledge in a Global Age, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science, April 17–18, 2007).
For example, see my introduction to Conceptualizing Global History ed. by myself and Ralph Buultjens (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993; repr. Newton Center, MA: New Global History Press, 2004).
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Mazlish, B. (2009). Epilogue. In: The Idea of Humanity in a Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617766_8
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