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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. Cosmopoli...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Appiah, Anthony (author of afterword.), Horta, Paulo Lemos (Editor), Robbins, Bruce (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Cosmopolitanism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Bruce Robbins and Paulo Lemos Horta
  • part I. Justice
  • 1. The cosmopolitanism of the poor / Silviano Santiago (translated by Magdalena Edwards and Paulo Lemos Horta)
  • 2. George Orwell, cosmopolitanism, and global justice / Bruce Robbins
  • 3. Cosmopolitanism goes to class / Walter Benn Michaels
  • 4. Utonal life : a genealogy for global ethics / Leela Gandhi
  • part II. Solidarity
  • 5. Cosmopolitanism and the problem of solidarity / David A. Hollinger
  • 6. Afropolitanism / Achille Mbembe (translated by Paulo Lemos Horta)
  • 7. Cosmopolitan exchanges : scenes of colonial and postcolonial reading / Elleke Boehmer
  • 8. The cosmopolitan experience and its uses / Thomas Bender
  • 9. Cosmopolitanism and the claims of religious identity / Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • part III. Power
  • 10. The cosmopolitan idea and national sovereignty / Robert J.C. Young
  • 11. Spectral sovereignty, vernacular cosmopolitans, and cosmopolitan memories / Homi K. Bhabha
  • 12. Cosmopolitan prejudice / Paulo Lemos Horta
  • part IV. Critique
  • 13. A stoic critique of cosmopolitanism / Phillip Mitsis
  • 14. A cosmopolitanism of connections / Craig Calhoun
  • 15. The pitfalls and promises of Afropolitanism / Emma Dabiri
  • part V. Spaces
  • 16. City of youth and mellow elusiveness : Accra's cosmopolitan constellations / Ato Quayson
  • 17. The cosmopolitanisms of citizenship / Jeremy Waldron
  • 18. Afropolitan style and unusable global spaces / Ashleigh Harris
  • 19. Other cosmopolitans / Yan Haiping
  • Afterword / Kwame Anthony Appiah.

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