Cosmopolitanisms
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1479863238 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. He is the editor of Cosmopolites and the author of Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Inequality. Among his many works are The Ethics of Identity (2005) and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a Worl
“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. ‘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. Cautiously, but distinctively, the voices heard in this most timely book speak for the better.”-Etienne Balibar,author of Equaliberty
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. This book gives a new meaning to belonging and its ground-breaking arguments call for deep and necessary discussion and discourse. . 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 compelling collective. Cosmopolitanisms works from the premise that there is more than one kind of cosmopolitanism, a plurality that insists cosmopolitanism can no longer stand as a single ideal against which all smaller loyalties and forms of belonging are judged. 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. 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