Full Description
Cosmopolitanism is about the extension of the moral and political horizons of people, societies, organizations and institutions. Over the past 25 years there has been considerable interest in cosmopolitan thought across the human social sciences.
The second edition of the Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies is an enlarged, revised and updated version of the first edition. It consists of 50 chapters across a broader range of topics in the social and human sciences. Eighteen entirely new chapters cover topics that have become increasingly prominent in cosmopolitan scholarship in recent years, such as sexualities, public space, the Kantian legacy, the commons, internet, generations, care and heritage.
This Second Edition aims to showcase some of the most innovative and promising developments in recent writing in the human and social sciences on cosmopolitanism. Both comprehensive and innovative in the topics covered, the Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies is divided into four sections.
Cosmopolitan theory and history with a focus on the classical and contemporary approaches,
The cultural dimensions of cosmopolitanism,
The politics of cosmopolitanism,
World varieties of cosmopolitanism.
There is a strong emphasis in interdisciplinarity, with chapters covering contributions in philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, media studies, international relations. The Handboook's clear and comprehensive style will appeal to a wide undergraduate and postgraduate audience across the social and human sciences.
Contents
Preface Introduction: The Field of Cosmopolitan Studies Part I: Cosmopolitan Theory, History and Approaches 1. Kant and Cosmopolitan Legacies 2. Radical Cosmopolitanism and the Tradition of Insurgent Universality 3. There is no Cosmopolitanism without Universalism 4. Alt-Histories of Cosmopolitanism: Rewriting the Past in the Service of the Future 5. World History and Cosmopolitanism 6. Cosmopolitan Thought in Weimar Germany 7. The Modern Cognitive Order, Cosmopolitanism and Conflicting Models of World Openness: Towards a Critique of Contemporary Social Relations 8. The Idea of Critical Cosmopolitanism 9. Border Thinking and Decolonial Cosmopolitanism: Overcoming Colonial/Imperial Differences 10. Cosmopolitanism and Social Research: Some Methodological Issues of an Emerging Research Agenda 11. Performing Cosmopolitanism. The Context and Object-dependency of Cosmopolitan Openness Part II: Cosmopolitan Cultures 12. Anthropology and the New Ethical Cosmopolitanism 13. Cosmopolitanism and 'Civilization': Social Theory and Political Programmes 14. Cosmopolitanism and Translation 15. Third Culture Kids and Paradoxical Cosmopolitanism 16. Festivals, Museums, Exhibitions: Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in the Cultural Public Sphere 17. Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism 18. The Cosmopolitanism of the Sacred 19. Imagining Cosmopolitan Sexualities for a 21st Century 20. Themes in Cosmopolitan Education 21. Media Cultures and Cosmopolitan Connection 22. Interspecies Cosmopolitanism 23. Making Heritage Cosmopolitan 24. Bordering and Connectivity: Thinking about Cosmopolitan Borders 25. Cosmopolitan Public Space(s) 26. Cosmopolitanism in Cities and Beyond Part III: Cosmopolitics 27. Seeking Global Justice: What Kind of Equality Should Guide Cosmopolitans? 28. Cosmocitizens? 29. Global Civil Society and the Cosmopolitan Ideal 30. The Commons and Cosmopolitanism 31. The Idea of Cosmopolitan Solidarity 32. Humanitarianism and Cosmopolitanism 33. A Deeper Framework of Cosmopolitan Justice: Addressing Inequalities in the Era of the Anthropocene 34. Cosmopolitan Care 35. The Internet and Cosmopolitanism 36. Cosmopolitanism and Migrant Protests 37. Cosmopolitan Diplomacy Part IV: World Varieties of Cosmopolitanism 38. Cosmopolitanism in Latin America: Political Practices, Critiques, and Imaginaries 39. Caribbean Cosmopolitanism: The View from Ethnography 40. Americans and Others: Historical Identity Formation in the United States 41. Cosmopolitanism in Asia 42. Benedict Anderson's Cosmopolitan Leanings and the Question of Southeast Asian Subjectivity 43. Unity in Diversity: The Indian Idea of Cosmopolitanism 44. Between Tianzia and PostSocialism: Contemporary Chinese Cosmopolitanism 45. Kyōsei: Japan's Cosmopolitanism 46. Immigration, Indigeneity and Identity: Cosmopolitanism in Australia and New Zealand 47. Cosmopolitanism in a European context: Reflections on cosmopolitan order in Europe and the EU 48. Cosmopolitan Europe: Postcolonial Interventions and Global Transitions 49. Afropolitanism and the End of Black Nationalism 50. Jews and Cosmopolitanism from the Early Modern Age to the Global Era
