Being Cosmopolitan - A Political Approach

This book sets out a new way to think about cosmopolitanism, asking what it means to be cosmopolitan in a thoroughly political sense, rather than treating cosmopolitanism as a moral idea. Luke Ulä argues that to be cosmopolitan in this political sense is to imagine a global public to which certain affairs pertain.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Being Cosmopolitan


• 2: Mainstream Cosmopolitanism


• 3: Contestatory Cosmopolitanism


• 4: Cosmopolitanism and Self-Determination


• 5: Imagining Cosmopolitical (Dis)Order: Pluralism and Holism


• 6: Being Cosmopolitan, Together and Apart


• Conclusion

About the author

Luke Ulä is a Lecturer in Political Theory in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield. He has research interests in the political theory of cosmopolitanism and global political theory more widely, as well as in methodological questions in political theory. His previously published work has appeared in journals including European Journal of Political Theory, International Theory, and Political Studies.

Summary

This book sets out a new way to think about cosmopolitanism, asking what it means to be cosmopolitan in a thoroughly political sense, rather than treating cosmopolitanism as a moral idea. Luke Ulas argues that to be cosmopolitan in this political sense is to imagine a global public to which certain affairs pertain.

Product details

• Authors: Luke (Lecturer in Political Theory Luke Ulas, Luke Luke Ulaş, Luke (Lecturer in Political Theory Ulas, Luke Ulaş
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2025
• EAN: 9780198915263
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891526-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Geopolitics, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory