Ideas to die for the cosmopolitan challenge

Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms - religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often...

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Main Author: Gunn, Giles B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2013
Series:Global horizons 10
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Mapping and Remapping the Global
  • Cosmopolitanism and Being Other-wise
  • Pragmatist Alternatives and Absolutist Options
  • Culture and the Misshaping of World Order
  • America's Gods Then and Now
  • War Narratives and American Exceptionalism
  • The Trans-civilizational, the Inter-civilizational, and the Human
  • Globalizing the Humanities and an "Other" Humanism