Cosmopolitan Ideal

Critically interrogating the popular concept of cosmopolitanism, this book offers new insight of what it means to be a world citizen today.

List of contents

Introduction; Sybille De La Rosa and Darren O'Byrne / PART I: The Debate on Cosmopolitism and Connected Discourses / 1. Humanity, Rights and the Ideal of Critical Cosmopolitanism; Amos Nascimento / 2. A Feminist Cosmopolitanism: Relational or Non-Relational; Angie Pepper / PART II: The Challenges of Cosmopolitism / 3. Finding the Universality Beyond Language and Culture: Comparative Political Theory and the Cosmopolitanism of Wang Yangming and Immanuel Kant; Sae Hee Lee / 4. Back to the Future: Postmulticulturalism, Immanent Cosmopolitanism; Sneja Gunew / 5. Writing Through a Critical Cosmopolitan Lens; Anne Surma / 6. A New Cosmopolitan World History?: Polycentrism and Beyond; Martin Hewson / PART III: Critical Cosmopolitan Perspectives / 7. The Cosmopolitan Ideal and the Civilizing Process: Expanding Citizenship for Peace; Geneviève Souillac / 8. Critical Cosmopolitanism: Democracy and Representation; Sybille De La Rosa / 9. Jacques Derrida and The Case of Cosmopolitan: 'Cities of Refuge' in the 21st Century; Spiros Makris / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Darren O'Byrne is reader of sociology and human rights at the University of Roehampton.

Sybille de la Rosa is assistant chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg.

Summary

Critically interrogating the popular concept of cosmopolitanism, this book offers new insight of what it means to be a world citizen today.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sybille de la Rosa (Editor), Darren O'Byrne (Editor), O'Byrne Darren (Editor), Sybille De La Rosa (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9781783482290
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-229-0
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, Globalization, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political science & theory, Political science and theory