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This book investigates several dimensions of the concept of cosmopolitanism since Kant. The first of these dimensions is a world vision that considers the construction of a »cosmopolitan self« as a question of justice. The second is the idea that a local political-legal order is fully democratic only if it respects the environment and the human rights of all people of the world, regardless of their citizenship. The third dimension concerns the practice of crossborder associations between individuals, institutionalized or not (cosmopolitics, as Balibar called it). The fourth considers individuals as subjects of international law, as in the case of individual petitions concerning human rights through the European Court of Human Rights and individual responsibility in international criminal law. Finally, the fifth dimension is a form of ecological consciousness based on the relationship between the self and the cosmos, which would imply a profound revision of modern anthropocentric concepts.
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Cristina Foroni Consani, Joel T. Klein, Soraya Nour Sckell: IntroductionPart I. Cosmopolitanism in Modern PhilosophyMaria Isabel Limongi: David Hume and »Difference« as a Cosmopolitan PrincipleDelamar José Volpato Dutra, Cláudio Ladeira de Oliveira: There are no Limits to the Rights of a State against an unjust enemyFernando M. F. Silva: Kant and the Birth of the PragmaticHenny Blomme: Kant on the (Im)Possibility of attaining Perpetual PeaceJoel T. Klein: Prudential Reasoning in Kant's Legal CosmopolitanismMaria Borges: Kant on Cosmopolitan Law and the Possibility of Refugee RightsVinicius de Figueiredo: Two Moments of Kantian CosmopolitanismGiorgia Cecchinato: Fichte's Closed Commercial State from a Cosmopolitan Perspective: Identifying Agreement in spite of Apparent ContradictionsPart II. Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary PhilosophyBethania Assy, Rafael Rolo: Shaman Cosmopolitanism: Amerindian Resistance and PerspectivismCelso de Moraes Pinheiro: Citizenship beyond BordersCharlesFeldhaus: Cosmopolitism in Habermas: With and beyond KantCristina Foroni Consani: A Constitution without a State? An Analysis of the Habermasian Proposal for Global Politics without a World GovernmentDarlei Dall'Agnol: Global Bioethics and the Need for better International GovernanceDavid García Hoyos: Cultural Cosmopolitics in Latin America: The Case of CumbiaMarco Antonio Valentim: Cosmology and Politics in the AnthropoceneMilene Consenso Tonetto: Global Ethics and Climate ChangeNythamar de Oliveira, João Henrique Salles Jung: Is a Cosmopolitan World Society possible? A Dialogue between Critical Theory and the English SchoolThomas Bustamante: Is there an Objective Standard of Salience for International Law?Notes on Contributors, Index
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), Munich, Metz, Lille, and Lisbon, as well as at the University Portucalense. She has been director of the research program on cosmopolitanism at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris (2013-2019) and she is the vice-president of the Association Humboldt France.
