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Deep Cosmopolis - Rethinking World Politics and Globalisation (Paperback)
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Deep Cosmopolis - Rethinking World Politics and Globalisation (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
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Too often, observers of globalization take for granted that the
common ground across cultures is a thin layer of consumerism and
perhaps human rights. If so, then anything deeper and more
traditional would be placebound, and probably destined for the
dustbin of history. But must this be so? Must we assume--as both
liberals and traditionalists now tend to do--that one cannot be a
cosmopolitan and take traditions seriously at the same time? This
book offers a radically different argument about how traditions and
global citizenship can meet, and suggests some important lessons
for the contours of globalization in our own time. Adam K. Webb
argues that if we look back before modernity, we find a very
different line of thinking about what it means to take the whole
world as one's horizon. Digging into some fascinating currents of
thought and practice in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the
early modern period, across all major civilizations, Webb is able
to reveal patterns of "deep cosmopolitanism", with its logic quite
unlike that of liberal globalization today. In their more
cosmopolitan moments, everyone from clerics to pilgrims to
empire-builders was inclined to look for deep ethical
parallels-points of contact-among civilizations and traditions.
Once modernity swept aside the old civilizations, however, that
promise was largely forgotten. We now have an impoverished view of
what it means to embrace a tradition and even what kinds of
conversations across traditions are possible. In part two, Webb
draws out the lessons of deep cosmopolitanism for our own time. If
revived, it has something to say about everything from the rise of
new non-Western powers like China and India and what they offer the
world, to religious tolerance, to global civil society, to
cross-border migration. Deep Cosmopolis traces an alternative
strand of cosmopolitan thinking that cuts across centuries and
civilizations. It advances a new perspective on world history, and
a distinctive vision of globalization for this century which has
the real potential to resonate with us all.
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