Post-Western World

Philosophy and The Human Inheritance in a Post-Western World

The dissolution of the Western-dominated Postwar Order, and the Eurocentric myths that sustain it, presents a unique opportunity to ponder an old question posed by every new generation: How can philosophy, which Islamic and ancient Greek learning traditions have long defined as the pursuit of “wisdom,” resume its millennial civilizing role? This paper looks beyond passing political events to re...

Inequality and Support for Restributive Policy: One World of Post-Communism, Two Worlds of Western Capitalism

This paper deals with attitudes towards inequality by comparing a number of post-communist and western capitalist societies. The data are from the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) of 1992. As a first step, basic differences in attitudes are described. In comparison East Europeans perceive on average slightly more distributional conflicts, criticize income differences more strongly a...

The Post-MOOC World

We’ve become so accustomed to the cycle of hype that we apply it to every new innovation without thinking. We expect all new technologies to be swept upward on a wave of emotion, only to fall to earth when the hype wears o . By reducing innovation to a stereotype, we overlook the new ideas that each innovation can bring. A recent swing in the cycle of hype began in 2011, when massive open onlin...

Mobility in the Modern Western World

ion. Th ey aspire toward the universal and have no regard for the particular. In this sense, they are simply yet another form of representation of mobility alongside choreography charts or time-lapse photography. Unlike these other forms of representation, however, rights play a central role in the formation of liberal democracy. Th e right to mobility is central to the list of rights considere...

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