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The Cosmopolitan Ideal - Challenges and Opportunities (Hardcover)
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The Cosmopolitan Ideal - Challenges and Opportunities (Hardcover)
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Cosmopolitanism has resurfaced as a prominent perspective within
philosophy and the social sciences. Its critics, though, suggest
that contemporary cosmopolitanism is abstract and ultimately
meaningless, or that it is the globalized expression of a very
European, and modern, ideal. This book aims to develop a new
cosmopolitanism: one that is critical, inclusive, and relevant for
the twenty-first century. The first section considers why we should
behave as cosmopolitans at all; why do we owe some concept of
justice to those who are suffering some form of injustice around
the world? The book then moves beyond normative debates, using
empirical studies on practical concerns to explore the ways in
which we can break with traditional structures, practices, and
power inequalities that have been based on disregard and
subordination. Extending the scope of cosmopolitanism to
incorporate issues such as gender, asylum and identity, to draw on
non-Western as well as Western influences, the book
re-conceptualizes terms like democracy, refuge and representation,
in order to develop more inclusive and cosmopolitan understandings
of them.
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