The routes of humanity: phenomenology of migrations

Abstract

This article represents the electronic edition of the homonymous book published in 2006 by the publishing house La Xara, from Simat de Valldigna (Valencia). For the main authors (philosopher and historian) the study of human migrations is best approached from the idea of a route, the most powerful analysis of which derives, in turn, from the use of historical-phenomenological categories, compared to other possible ones with less performance. (sociological, psychological or metaphysical). Thus, they place us in the field of the philosophy of history. The route is defined as a trajectory that allows «unite and separate collectively (by contact or contiguity) societies, peoples, cultures... and thus transform the relationships between men, their knowledge about the world and the links with the identities that still exist. they have not been incorporated into the routes» (p. 29). And the route is the incessant result of the dialectic between the historical routes —inland, religious, currency, displacement, political-military and energy—. Such trajectories and their complementary ones launch humanity on the path of globalization.