INTERCULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF PHILOSOPHY AND RECOGNITION REPORT IN RAUL FORNET-BETANCOURT. A RESPONSE TO THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION AND NEOLIBERALISM

Abstract

The political recognition of every cultural and every identity/different in a democratic and inclusive sense, requires the practice of intercultural dialogue, and therefore of the rethinking of the relationship between cultures: a dia-logic, as an instrument, but also as a terrain, of identity recognition that, constitutively implying "facing the other", and translates into putting in place a dialogic experience. Moreover, every question related to recognition implies an "unavoidable disimmetry", peculiar specificity of every relationship with others different from us. This proposal intends to show how intercultural philosophy, starting from the elaboration of the Cuban philosopher Raul Fornet- Betancourt, is first of all a search for new paradigms of thought, starting from the comparison and conflict of cultures, to try to understand if it is a question of dialogue / confrontation or conflict, and this touches the practical-political sphere and therefore also an ethical option. And the search for a new relationship between philosophy, politics and interculturality can meet precisely in the assumption of the task of overcoming the situation of mere fragmentation of cultural universes, to fulfill instead that of building new interidentity and transcultural relations, as a response to the contemporary challenges of neoliberalism, Western capitalism and globalization.