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

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Edited by Sybille De La Rosa and Darren O'Byrne

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

• Authors: De La Rosa, Darren O'Byrne, Sybille de la Rosa
• 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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2015
• EAN: 9781783482306
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-230-6
• 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