
Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason : Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship.
Title:
Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason : Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship.
Author:
Lettevall, Rebecka.
ISBN:
9783035306200
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Series:
New Visions of the Cosmopolitan ; v.2
New Visions of the Cosmopolitan
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Note on the Cover Image -- Introduction -- Toward a Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason (Rebecka Lettevall and Kristian Petrov) -- Part I: Rethinking Cosmopolitanism -- Philosophic Exile: Plato's Care for the Self as Cosmopolitanism (Aaron C. Vlasak) -- Cosmopolitanism of the Not-All, from a Psychoanalytic Point of View (Tania Espinoza) -- Part II: Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism Revisited -- Anacharsis Cloots and the Birth of Modern Cosmopolitanism (Frank Ejby Poulsen) -- Exemplary Universality: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Global Citizenship (Nina Lex) -- Kant and the Right of World Citizens: An Historical Interpretation (Georg Cavallar) -- Herder and Cosmopolitanism (Eva Piirimäe) -- Part III: East of "Cosmopolis" -- De-Romanticizing Exile (Galin Tihanov) -- Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of East European Dissent (Tamara Caraus) -- Part IV: Beyond Cosmopolitanism -- Cosmopolitanism and the Infidelity to Internationalism: Repeating Postcoloniality and the World Revolution (Jamil Khader) -- Reflections of a Reluctant Cosmopolitan (Andrew Vincent) -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms.
Abstract:
Since the Enlightenment, the definition of terms such as humanity, citizenship and rights has fluctuated and these ideas continue to have relevance for contemporary discussions of globalization from a cosmopolitan perspective. This volume goes back to the conception of cosmopolitanism in Greek antiquity in order to trace it through history, resulting in an unmasking of its many myths. The concept is reconstructed with reference not only to well-known (and some lesser known) historical thinkers of cosmopolitanism, but also to noted anti-cosmopolitans. The first aim of the book is to display historical perspectives on a discourse which has been dominated by ahistorical presumptions. The second is to critically explore alternative paths beyond the Western imagination, redefining the Enlightenment legacy and the centre-periphery dichotomy. Most notably, Eastern Europe and the Arab world are integrated within the analysis of cosmopolitanism. Within a framework of conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte), cosmopolitan reason is criticized from the viewpoints of comparative literature, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, postcolonialism and moral philosophy. The book's critical approach is an attempt to come to terms with the anachronism, essentialism, ethnocentrism and anthropocentrism that sometimes underlie contemporary theoretical and methodological uses of the term cosmopolitanism. By adding historical and contextual depth to the problem of cosmopolitanism, a reflexive corrective is presented to enhance ongoing discussions of this topic within as well as outside academia.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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