The existential issue and globalization

If there is anything new in the presentation of this book's material, it is reconsidering the existential issue at a pivotal moment in its modern development, which is globalization. And thinking about it (the existential issue), from this historical approach, is not haunted by the idea of the doubled danger that now threatens it, in this revolutionary (globalization) historical moment, that is - also - thinking that its fate is to produce a new political lament, but rather we intended it to be a reflection on the new possibilities - which the very facts of globalization open - for many nations and peoples to develop their capacity to push forward and benefit from what can be gained of new potentials for progress and self-construction. And we do not build this hypothesis on distant utopian hopes, but on the experiences of others who succeeded in transforming globalization from a curse into a blessing, and that is the case of China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.