Inhuman conditions : on cosmopolitanism and human rights /
Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Inhuman Conditions questions key ideas about what it means to be human. Cheah links influential arguments about the new cosmopolitanism to a perceptive examination of the older cosmopolitanism of Kant and Marx, and juxtaposes...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Sumario: | Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Inhuman Conditions questions key ideas about what it means to be human. Cheah links influential arguments about the new cosmopolitanism to a perceptive examination of the older cosmopolitanism of Kant and Marx, and juxtaposes them with proliferating formations of collective culture to reveal the flaws in claims about the imminent decline of the nation-state and the obsolescence of popular nationalism. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 321 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-313) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674029460 0674029461 0674262646 9780674262645 |