ABSTRACT
Bourricaud draws attention to a critical issue at the center of any discussion of globalization and culture-the ideational and pragmatic aspects of interaction and communication between collective and individual actors on the global scene. This chapter argues that the latter is a basic feature of the human condition, which was given substantial and extremely consequential historical thematization with the rise of the great religio-cultural traditions during what Karl Jaspers called the axial period. It argues that recent world history the universalism-particularism issue has come to constitute something like a global-cultural form, a major axis of the structuration of the world as a whole. Antimodernity is around the universalism-particularism axis of globalization that the discontents of globality manifest themselves in reference to new, globalized variations on the oldish themes of Gesellschaft and Gemeinschaft. There are signs of serious attempts to address directly the actual insertion of women in the globalization process, the recent book by Cynthia Enloe being an interesting example.
