View of Globalization Processes through the Prism of Hegel’s Heritage

Abstract

The article compares the processes of globalization of modernity with the era of the Napoleonic wars, when an attempt was made to integrate Europe into a single political, economic and socio-cultural whole. The historical and philosophical bases of these comparisons are the works of G.W.F. Hegel. The authors conclude that while the integration processes in the beginning of the XIX century had a historically progressive character, the modern globalization – on the contrary – is a phenomenon of regression for the history of mankind.