TY - JOUR AU - Ross, Robert J.S. PY - 1996/08/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - AGENCY AND ENLIGHTENMENT: Comment on W. Warren Wagar's "Toward a Praxis o f World Integration" JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Global Politics and the Future of the World-System DO - 10.5195/jwsr.1996.84 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/84 SP - 89-93 AB - However rare, a call to the secular and universal values of the Enlightenment is a special pleasure in an era of fractional identities where the dominant intellectual process is one which poses a "victim Olympics" as the highest form of analysis .That said, Wagar's assertion of the desirability of a "democratic, liberal, and socialist world commonwealth" would, should it actually become someone 's praxis, require an historic agent. Wagar leaves this in a voluntarist mode: people should become self-consciously internationalist and form, as metaphorically and not so metaphoricallylimned in his provocative novel, a "world party." ER -