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Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)

13 reviews
Kwame Anthony Appiah

W. W. Norton, 2007

Becoming Cosmopolitan
One of the most pernicious ideas has spung from the myth that we are necessarily separated and segregated into groups that are defined by criteria like gender, language, race, religion or some other kind of boundary. And it is easy to see that these boundaries are a major cause of conflict. The author of this enthralling book - Kwame Anthony Appiah - challenges this kind of separative thinking ...

On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness (Thinking in Action) (Thinking in Action)

4 reviews
Jacques Derrida

Routledge, 2001

Le Grand Pardon
As Derrida points out, the two virtues of hospitality and forgiveness belong to the Abrahamic tradition common to Jews, Christians and Moslems. They were defined and codified at a time when nation-states didn't exist, and point toward forms of solidarity that are both archaic and highly modern, in the sense that they help us expand our legal and political horizon. Granting hospitality or ...

The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism

Cambridge University Press, 2005

Do national boundaries have fundamental moral significance, or do we have moral obligations to foreigners that are equal to our obligations to our compatriots? The latter position is known as cosmopolitanism, and this volume brings together a number of distinguished political philosophers and theorists to explore cosmopolitanism and the positive arguments that can be made for it. Their essays provide a comprehensive overview of the current state ...

Another Cosmopolitanism (Berkeley Tanner Lectures)
Seyla Benhabib

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

In these two important lectures, distinguished political philosopher Seyla Benhabib argues that since the UN Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, we have entered a phase of global civil society which is governed by cosmopolitan norms of universal justice -- norms which are difficult for some to accept as legitimate since they are in conflict with democratic ideals. In her first lecture, Benhabib argues that this tension can never be fully ...

Justice without Borders: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Patriotism (Contemporary Political Theory)

1 review
Kok-Chor Tan

Cambridge University Press, 2004

For grad students only
The writing style is very prolix and pedantic, more like a thesis.

Cosmopolitanism (A Public Culture Book)

Duke University Press, 2002

As the final installment of Public Culture? s Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism?or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one?s particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory of translocal political aspirations and ...

Cosmopolitanism and Belonging: From European Integration to Global Hopes
Craig Calhoun

Routledge, 2009

Reviewing recent cosmopolitan thinking and theorizing from the somewhat chastened perspective of the twenty-first century, Cosmopolitanism and Belonging questions the social bases of cosmopolitanism and the continuing importance of nationalism. With an especial focus on European integration which loomed large in the cosmopolitan visions of a few years ago, Craig Calhoun addresses the ways in which cosmopolitan theories may be biased from the ...

Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context, and Practice

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

This collection is a detailed exploration of cosmopolitanism written by eminent scholars and public intellectuals from many disciplines and cultural backgrounds. By challenging old assumptions and advancing new analytical frameworks, it provides a full and representative set of views on the nature, definition and prospects of cosmopolitanism as well as clarification and explication of different cosmopolitan traditions.

Communication Ethics: Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality (Critical Intercultural Communication ...

Peter Lang Publishing, 2008

This volume occasions a dialogue between major authors in the field who engage in a conversation on cosmopolitanism and provinciality from a communication ethics perspective. There is no consensus on what constitutes communication ethics, cosmopolitanism, or provinciality: the task is more modest and diverse and began with contributors being asked what the bias of their work suggests or offers for understanding the theme Communication Ethics: ...

Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age
Toby Miller

Temple University Press, 2006

What does it mean to be a "citizen" today, in an age of unbridled consumerism, terrorism, militarism, and multinationalism? In this passionate and dazzling book, Toby Miller dares to answer this question with the depth of thought it deserves. Fast-moving and far-ranging, "Cultural Citizenship" blends fact, theory, observation, and speculation in a way that continually startles and engages the reader. Although he is unabashedly liberal in his ...

Cosmopolitanism (Key Ideas)
Robert Fine

Routledge, 2008

The idea of cosmopolitanism has informed some of the most important developments in current sociology. It has changed the way in which we think about a vast array of issues: the forces of globalisation, the resurgence of nationalism, the future of political community in Europe, the role of international law in social life, changing forms of violence and even the life of the mind. This book explains what cosmopolitanism is and why it has grabbed ...

India in Africa, Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms

Indiana University Press, 2008

"India in Africa, Africa in India" traces the longstanding interaction between these two regions, showing that the Indian Ocean world provides many examples of cultural flows that belie our understanding of globalization as a recent phenomenon. This region has had, and continues to have, an internal integrity that touches the lives of its citizens in their commerce, their cultural exchanges, and their concepts of each other and of themselves in ...

Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
Margaret C. Jacob

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006

The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of "brothers" in privacy and even secrecy--Margaret Jacob invokes all these examples in Strangers Nowhere in the World to provide glimpses of the cosmopolitan ethos ...

At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)
Timothy Brennan

Harvard University Press, 1997

From every quarter we hear of a new global culture, postcolonial, hybrid, announcing the death of nationalism, the arrival of cosmopolitanism. But under the drumbeat attending this trend, Timothy Brennan detects another, altogether different sound. Polemical, passionate, certain to provoke, his book exposes the drama being played out under the guise of globalism. A bracing critique of the critical self-indulgence that calls itself ...

Jews and Port Cities: 1590-1990 -- Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism

1 review

Vallentine-Mitchell, 2005

Great Grad Seminar Material!
The Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies has provided Cesarani with two book editorships in the same topic area of the Port Jew. In this second opportunity Cesarani with Romain have collected a wide array of articles on various Jewish communities around the world stretching the original concept of Port Jew. Some of the articles are absolutely wonderful if your focus is on the ...

The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment.
Amanda Anderson

Princeton University Press, 2001

Combining analysis of Victorian literature and culture with forceful theoretical argument, The Powers of Distance examines the progressive potential of those forms of cultivated detachment associated with Enlightenment and modern thought. Amanda Anderson explores a range of practices in nineteenth-century British culture, including methods of objectivity in social science, practices of omniscience in artistic realism, and the complex forms of ...

Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
Pheng Cheah

Harvard University Press, 2007

Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah responds deftly with a sobering account of how the "inhuman" imperatives of capitalism and technology are transforming our understanding of humanity and its prerogatives. Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Inhuman Conditions questions key ideas about ...

Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism
Costas Douzinas

Routledge, 2007

Erudite and timely, this book is a key contribution to the renewal of radical theory and politics. Addressing the paradox of a contemporary humanitarianism that has abandoned politics in favour of combating evil, Douzinas, a leading scholar and author in the field of human rights and legal theory, considers the most pressing international questions. Asking whether there ?is an intrinsic relationship between human rights and the recent wars ...

Cosmopolitanism And The Age Of School Reform: Science, Education And Making Society By Making The Child
Thomas Popkewitz

Routledge, 2007

This book explores changing cultural theses of cosmopolitanism in contemporary U.S. school reforms and its sciences. Noted educationalist Thomas Popkewitz explores turn of the twentieth century and contemporary pedagogical reforms in teaching and curriculum standards and reform research to consider the changing principles of who the child is, should be, and who is not that child ? the anthropological 'Others'. He deftly shows that ...

Zionism and the Fin de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky

2 reviews
Michael Stanislawski

University of California Press, 2001

Obvious and Sneering
Well, of course (a) Nordau, Lillian and Jabotinsky were a product of their time and (b) Jabotinsky wasn't one of the great literary masters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but so what? I can't quite figure out what the point of the book was. That said, I found the actual historical information very useful, especially the discussion of Nordau's bizzare love affair with a Russian ...

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