Part I - Devolopment, modernization, and globalization Development, modernization: the contemporary construction of subjectivity - Candido Mendes Values and globalization: communitarianism and globality - Roland Robertson Globalization: object, perspective, horizon - Otávio Velho Part II - Cultural pluralism and the emergence of social identities Economic globalization effects on the identity and character of complex societies. A comparison between northern and southeastern populations of Mexico about their national identity and national character - Héctor Manuel Cappello The praise of folly: ambiguity and excess in Gilberto Freyre's: the masters and the slaves - Ricardo Benzaquen de Araújo Globalization and national identity: considerations based on the brasilian experience - Roberto DaMatta Something is out the new world order - the building of an identity - Cláudia Fares Multiculturalism and nationalism, or, why feeling at home is not a substitute for public space - Craig Calhoun Universalism, particularism and the question of identity - Ernesto Laclau Brazilian society and the organization of subjectivity - Maria Isabel Mendes de Almeida Part III - Differences from the perspective of globalization: assessment of the intellectual experimentation and imagination of the future Anxious hindu and angry farmer: notas on the culture and politics of two responses to globalization in India - D. R. Nagaraj Critical cultural studies as one power/knowdge like, among, and in engagement with others - George E. Marcus Alternative circuits? Third world scholars in third world spaces - Tejaswini Niranjana Globalization as a shift in intracultural relations - Luiz Eduardo Soares Democratic identity and pluralist politics - Chantal Mouffe Globalization, Traditions and simultaneity of presences - José Jorge de Carvalho Global utopias, history and philosophy - Richard Rorty Justice as a larger loyalty - Richard Rorty Presentation of the authors