Universalità e globalizzazione.

The paper will discuss some consequences of contemporary process of globalization starting from a philosophical discussion of the relationship between "universality" and "particularity". In the paper will be exposed and criticized some ideas of "universality" developed in the history of philosophy between Plato and Kant. A new idea of "universality" as "universalizability" will be developed from an ethical point of view (rooted in the christian tradition) and the practice of language and of communication will be identified as a concrete frame for managing the problems involved by contemporary globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]