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Perpetual War : Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence /

Arguing that intellectuals must critique bellicose U.S. nationalism, Bruce Robbins advocates cosmopolitanism in its traditional sense, as an elevation of loyalty to the good of humanity as a whole over loyalty to one's own nation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robbins, Bruce
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cosmopolitanism, new and newer : Anthony Appiah
  • Noam Chomsky's golden rule
  • Blaming the system : Immanuel Wallerstein
  • The sweatshop sublime
  • Edward Said and effort
  • Intellectuals in public, or elsewhere
  • War without belief : Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club
  • Comparative national blaming : W.G. Sebald and the bombing of Germany.