Abstract

PADILLA ARIAS, Alberto. La civilización como universalización de la cultura. Argumentos (Méx.) [online]. 2012, vol.25, n.68, pp.61-78. ISSN 0187-5795.

The essay intends to demonstrate the predatory character of civilizations, in general, on the basis of a critical hermeneutical analysis of peoples and their peripheral cultures. The work focuses on western civilization, as a paradig, and its universalizing trend through the capitalist production regime, which we live today in its globalization phase. Taking into account the harmful effects arising from its expansion without limits.

Keywords : civilization; culture; globalization; depredation; Occident.

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