Global Conflicts and the Macro-regional Modernities. Interview with Marek Hrubec

• Authors: Marek Hrubec , Martin Solík
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The interview focuses on Marek Hrubec’s Critical theory of global society and politics. It presents a critique and explanation of social, economic, political, media, cultural issues, and explains normative alternatives. It deals with the crisis of global capitalism and the contemporary situation in the West. It compares it with the recent developments in alternative modernities in the Islamic countries, China and Russia, India and South America, and Africa. It addresses issues of global conflicts and injustice, global poverty, intercultural dialogue, corporate power, revolution and transformation, the United Nations and the requirements of cosmopolitan arrangement, and the personal experience from Central Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Keywords

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global conflicts; injustice; recognition; macro-regions; modernities; critical theory; intercultural communication

• Publisher: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda
• Journal: Communication Today
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 82–99

Contributors

author

Marek Hrubec

• Centre of Global Studies, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Jilská 1, 110 00 Prague 1, CZECH REPUBLIC

author

Martin Solík