Format:
1 online resource (353 pages)
ISBN:
9780231536417
Series Statement:
New Directions in Critical Theory
Content:
Reconfiguring cosmopolitanism to adapt to the moral and political challenges of globalization.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Cosmopolitan Revival and Its Reversals -- From Cosmopolitanism to Cosmopolitics -- Cosmopolitanism as a Problem in Practical Philosophy -- Kantian Conundrums and a Critical-Democratic Alternative -- Part One: COSMOPOLITANISM FROM THE TOP DOWN -- 1. Universalism in History -- A Short History of Western Cosmopolitanisms -- A Fin de Siecle Renaissance -- 2. Cosmopolitanism in Ethics: Tensions of the Universal -- The Problem of the Human: Anthropological Universalism -- From the Standpoint of Redemption: Procedural Universalism -- 3. Cosmopolitanism in Ethics: Realizing the Universal -- Achieving Perpetual Peace: Right, Progress, Publicity -- Cosmopolitan Democracy, Cosmopolitan Dilemmas -- Part Two: COSMOPOLITICS FROM THE BOTTOM UP -- 4. Rethinking Ethical Cosmopolitanism: From Universalism to Universalization -- Universalism as the Critique of False Universals -- The Measure of Equality -- 5. Rethinking Political Cosmopolitanism: From Democracy to Democratization -- Democracy as Political Action -- Democratic Universalism as Cosmopolitics -- 6. Cosmopolitics in Practice: The Politics of Human Rights -- Human Rights Politics as Implementation -- Human Rights Politics as Democratic Action -- Conclusion -- Three Realisms and Their Lessons -- A Realism of Possibility -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231161107
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780231161107
Language:
English
