¿Hacia una civilización universal? Una crítica del «choque de civilizaciones» de Huntington

• Main Author: Manuel María Urrutia León
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Deusto 2012-09-01
• Series: Estudios de Deusto
• Subjects: choque de civilizaciones; diversidad cultural; islam; universalismo
• Online Access: http://revista-estudios.revistas.deusto.es/article/view/378

From its appearance in 1993, the theory of the «clash of civilizations » of the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington has turned into one of the most spread and debated. In this article, after a meticulous reading of the book of Huntington, a series of fundamental critiques are presented to his paradigm for the global politics: his closed conception of the civilizations, his negative vision of the cultural diversity, his cultural relativism, etc. To end up by defending an alternative paradigm for the international relations: that of an intercultural dialogue based on the universal nucleus of the democracy and the human rights.