Contents -- Introduction: Globalization and the Inhuman -- I Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason -- 1. The Cosmopolitical-Today -- 2. Postnational Light -- 3. Given Culture: Rethinking Cosmopolitical Freedomin Transnationalism -- 4. Chinese Cosmopolitanism in Two Senses and Postcolonial National Memory -- II Human Rights and the Inhuman -- 5. Posit(ion)ing Human Rights in the Current GlobalConjuncture -- 6. "Bringing into the Home a Stranger Far More Foreign": Human Rights and the Global Trade in Domestic Labor -- 7. Humanity within the Field of Instrumentality -- Notes -- Index.