Cosmopolitanisms
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (855 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1479863238 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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‘New’ cosmopolitanism is more intense, diverse, conflictual, ambivalent than the ‘old,’ but also more directly involved in the shaping of our common future--for better or worse. “This book, which draws from contributions from north and south, east and west, center and periphery, powerfully reveals the change that the cosmopolitan idea has undergone when globalization, with its dominations, liberations, transportations, inequalities, and hybridities, made it eventually a historical reality. Cautiously, but distinctively, th
Paulo Lemos Horta is Assistant Professor of Literature at New York University Abu Dhabi. . He is co-editor of the Everyman’s Library Arabian Nights and author of Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights.Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. Among his many works are The Ethics of Identity (2005) and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world. "Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a “kosmo-polites,” or citizen of the world. In addition to exploring the philosophy of Kant and the space of the city, this volume focuses on global justice, which asks what cosmopolitanism is good for, and on the global south, which has often been assumed to be an object of cosmopolitan scrutiny, not itself a source or origin of cosmopolitanism. Rather, cosmopolitanism can be defined as one of many possible modes of life, thought, and sensibility that are produced when commitments and loyalties are multiple and overlapping. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one’s place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of membership in some larger, more com