Epilogue

Abstract

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.