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Subject(s)

• Cosmopolitanism [Browse]

Series

• Global horizons ; 10. [More in this series]
• Global horizons ; 10 [More in this series]

Summary note

• "Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms--religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often used to support the claim that cosmopolitanism is impotent to resist such totalizing ideologies because it is either a Western conceit or a globalist fiction, Gunn argues that cosmopolitanism is neither. Situating his discussion in an emphatically global context, Gunn shows how cosmopolitanism has been effective in resisting such essentialisms and authoritarianisms precisely because it is more pragmatic than prescriptive, more self-critical than self-interested and finds several of its foremost recent expressions in the work of an Indian philosopher, a Palestinian writer, and South African story-tellers. This kind of cosmopolitanism offers a genuine ethical alternative to the politics of dogmatism and extremism because it is grounded on a new delineation of the human and opens toward a new, indeed, an "other," humanism"-- Provided by publisher.
• "This book seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms - religious, political, social, and economic"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages [162]-170) and index.

ISBN

• 9780415813846 (hardback)
• 0415813840 (hardback)
• 9780415813884
• 0415813883

LCCN

2012039582

OCLC

820678647

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