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The idea of cosmopolitanism is increasingly in circulation both in the social sciences and in the language of everyday life. There is, however, much uncertainty about what it means, what it refers to and what role it plays in social scientific thinking. In this book Robert Fine explores the concept of cosmopolitanism, its contribution to critical thought, and its application to a number of pressing political issues: taming global marketisation, resisting the resurgence of nationalism and fundamentalism, constructing transnational forms of political community, enhancing the role of international law and human rights, prosecuting crimes against humanity and assessing the legitimacy of humanitarian military intervention. He explores the idea of cosmopolitanism both as a description of social reality and as a key element in the life of the modern mind. Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative discussion of the social, legal and political dimensions of the cosmopolitan turn in the social sciences. It should be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of social theory, sociology, political theory, cultural studies, international relations and law."--Book cover

Cosmopolitanism is less an ideal than a description. It merely assumes that wherever and whenever history has set peoples in motion across national boundaries, sometimes by force, many of them and their descendants will show signs of divided loyalties and a hybrid identity. Cosmopolitanism should no longer be conceived as singular - an overrriding loyalty to humanity as a whole-but plural. Instead of an unhealthily skinny ethical abstraction, we now have many blooming, fleshed-out particulars. How much do these variants have in common with each other? How much of the concept's old normative sense is preserved or transformed by these empirical particulars? What is it exactly that makes them interesting, makes them valuable?

Machine generated contents note: 1. Rethinking the Cosmopolitanism versus Non-Cosmopolitanism Debate: An Introduction / Gillian Brock -- 2. We Are All Cosmopolitans Now / Michael Blake -- 3. On the Relation Between Moral and Distributive Equality / Andrea Sangiovanni -- 4. Cosmopolitanism Without If and Without But / Lea Ypi -- 5. Cosmopolitan Justice and Rightful Enforceability / Laura Valentini -- 6. Is There Really a "Global Human Rights Deficit?" Consequentialist Liability and Cosmopolitan Alternatives / Saladin Meckled-Garcia -- 7. Severe Poverty as a Systemic Human Rights Violation / Elizabeth Ashford -- 8. For (Some) Political and Institutional Cosmopolitanism, (even if) Against Moral Cosmopolitanism / Miriam Ronzoni -- 9. Cosmopolitanism: Liberal and Otherwise / David A. Reidy -- 10. The Social and Institutional Bases of Distributive Justice / Samuel Freeman -- 11. Human Dignity, Associative Duties, and Egalitarian Global Justice / Darrel Moellendorf -- Contents note continued: 12. Worldly Citizens: Civic Virtue Without Patriotism / Simon Keller -- 13. Collective Agency and Global Non-Domination / Fabian Schuppert -- 14. The Cosmopolitanism Controversy Needs a Mid-Life Crisis / Richard W. Miller -- 15. Concluding Reflections / Thomas Pogge.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Feeling Cuban; 1. Un Tipo Típico: Alvarez Guedes Takes the Stage; 2. Cuban Miami on the Air; 3. Nostalgic Pleasures; 4. The Transnational Life of Diversión; 5. Digital Diversión: Feeling Cuban Online; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.

"Contemporary Cosmopolitanism is the first, much-needed, introduction to contemporary political cosmopolitanism. Although it has its roots in classical philosophy and politics, Cosmopolitanism has undergone a major revival in the last forty years, stirring far-reaching and intense international debates.Cosmopolitanism is a way of thought and life which entails an identification of the individual with the whole humankind, and implies a moral obligation to promote social and political justice at the global level. Contemporary cosmopolitanism reflects a global state that is already in itself highly cosmopolitan, and represents an attempt to solve the new problems raised by this situation, to reappraise a number of traditional conceptual categories in the light of changes having already occurred or that are still taking place, to develop new ones, as well as to encourage and guide political-institutional reform projects.Taraborrelli provides clear descriptions of the three main forms of contemporary cosmopolitanism - moral, political-legal and cultural - described through the thought of various figures representative of the more significant approaches: Appiah, Archibugi, Beitz, Benhabib, Bhabha, Held, Kaldor, Nussbaum, Pogge, Sousa Santos. This book provides a sound and comprehensive basis for the study of cosmopolitanism, ideal as a starting point for the discussion of issues of widespread interest such as human rights, global justice, migration, multiculturalism."--

Is the current global system compatible with cosmopolitanism, a universalist approach which grants no inherent moral significance to the state? In this volume, prominent theorists and International Relations scholars debate the implications of cosmopolitanism for state sovereignty, suprastate legitimacy, and the reform of cities, states and regional projects - as well as some encompassing world government.

Making sense of cosmopolitanism / Magdalena Nowicka and Maria Rovisco -- The middle class cosmopolitan journey : the life trajectories and transnational affiliations of skilled EU migrants in Manchester / Paul Kennedy -- Ethnic groups unbound : a case study of the social organization of cosmopolitanism / Mark-Anthony Falzon -- Looking at the practice of un professionals : strategies for managing differences and the emergence of a cosmopolitan identity / Magdalena Nowicka and Ramin Kaweh -- Cosmopolitan openings and closures in post-Yugoslav antinationalism / Stef Jansen -- Europe's evolving public space : cosmopolitan engagements through the lens of American mass culture / Rob Kroes -- Cosmopolitanisation of memory : the politics of forgiveness and restitution / Ulrich Beck, Daniel Levy and Natan Sznaider -- An accented radio : fostering cosmopolitanism through media in Berlin / Steven Vertovec -- Cosmopolitanism and feminism in the age of the war on terror : a twentieth-first century reading of Virginia Woolf's three guineas / Gillian Youngs -- Cosmopolitan capital or multicultural community? Reflections on the production and management of differential mobilities in Germany's capital city / Kira Kosnick -- Religion and the challenges of cosmopolitanism : young Portuguese volunteers in Africa / Maria Rovisco

What makes people cosmopolitan? How is cosmopolitanism shaping everyday life experiences and the practices of ordinary people? Making use of empirical research, Cosmopolitanism in Practice examines the concrete settings in which individuals display cosmopolitan sensibilities and dispositions, illustrating the ways in which cosmopolitan self-transformations can be used as an analytical tool to explain a variety of identity outlooks and practices. The manner in which both past and present cosmopolitanisms compete with meta-narratives such as nationalism, multiculturalism and religion is also investigated, alongside the employment of cosmopolitan ideas in situations of tension and conflict. With an international team of contributors, including Ulrich Beck, Steven Vertovec, Rob Kroes and Natan Sznaider, this book draws on a variety of intellectual disciplines and international contexts to show how people embrace and make use of cosmopolitan ideas and attitudes.

This book aims to provide cutting edge essays by leading scholars on cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism is an emerging movement in global ethics and provides a meeting point between theorists of international law, political science, political philosophy, applied ethics, economics, development studies, and international relations. The second International Conference of the International Global Ethics Association will be held in Melbourne, Australia in June 2008 on the theme of 'Questioning Cosmopolitanism' and will attract major scholars from around the world. It is envisaged that the best essays.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Part I: (Trans) National Perspectives -- 1. Germany: The Straggler as Leader -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- 2. Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, and Nationalism in the German and Austrian Enlightenment -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- 3. Feeling across Borders: The Europeanization of Russian Nobility through Emotional Patterns -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Part II: Agents of Cosmopolitanism -- 4. Literary Cosmopolitanism and the Geography of Genius in Eighteenth-Century France -- Abbé Dubos -- Madame de Staël -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- 5. Spinoza's Impact on Europe -- Introduction -- The Context of Spinoza's Ideas -- Spinoza's Religious Ideas -- Spinoza's Thinking on God -- The Consequences of Spinoza's Thinking for European Ideas on Belief -- Spinoza's Posthumous Reputation -- The Consequences of Spinoza's Thinking on God for Eighteenth-Century Ideas -- Spinoza's Conception of God Differs from Eighteenth-Century Materialism -- Newtonianism as Counter-Reaction to Materialism -- a) In England and France -- b) In Italy, Spain, and Portugal -- Conclusion -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- 6. Cosmopolitan Book Publishing: The Case of the Encyclopédie -- The Encyclopédie in France -- The Encyclopédie in Switzerland -- The Encyclopédie in Italy -- The Encyclopédie in England -- The Encyclopédie in Germany -- The Encyclopédie in Russia -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Part III: Afterlives -- 7. Subjectivity and Cosmopolitan Enlightenment: Music and Don Giovanni -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- 8. Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise Again of the Concept of Progress in Anglo-American Anthropology -- Progress: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall... -- The Armchair Hercules: Unilinear Evolutionary Anthropology -- Armchair Hercules Unbound: Historical Particularism

This volume brings together prominent political theorists and international relations scholars - including some skeptics of cosmopolitanism - in a far-ranging dialogue about the institutional implications of the approach. The contributors offer penetrating analyses of both continuing and emerging issues around state sovereignty, democratic autonomy and accountability, and the promotion and protection of human rights. They also debate potential reforms of the current global system, from the transformation of cities and states to the creation of some encompassing world government capable of effectively promoting cosmopolitan aims