Full Description
This reference book provides the reader with an exhaustive array of epistemological, theoretical, and empirical explorations related to the field of cosmopolitanism studies. It considers the cosmopolitan perspective rather as a relevant approach to the understanding of some major issues related to globalization than as a subfield of global studies. In this unique contribution to conceptualizing, establishing, experiencing, and challenging cosmopolitanism, each chapter seizes the paradoxical dialectic of opening up and closing up, of enlightenment and counter-enlightenment, of hope and despair at work in the global world, while the volume as a whole insists on the moral, intellectual, structural, and historical resources that still make cosmopolitanism a real possibility — and not just wishful thinking — even in these hard times.
Contributors include: John Agnew, Daniele Archibugi, Paul Bagguley, Esperança Bielsa, Estevão Bosco, Stéphane Chauvier, Daniel Chernilo, Vincenzo Cicchelli, VittorioCotesta, Stéphane Dufoix, David Held, Robert Holton, Yasmin Hussain, David Inglis, Lauren Langman, Pietro Maffettone, Sylvie Mesure, Magdalena Nowicka, Sylvie Octobre, Delphine Pagès-El Karaoui, Massimo Pendenza, Alain Policar, Frédéric Ramel,
Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Hiro Saito, Camille Schmoll, Bryan S. Turner, Clive Walker, and Daniel J. Whelan.
With an Afterword by Arjun Appadurai.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Splendors and Miseries of Cosmopolitanism
Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Mesure
Part 1: Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism
1 The First Axial Age and the Origin of Universalism
Vittorio Cotesta
2 Kantian Cosmopolitanism
Stéphane Chauvier
3 Cosmopolitanism and Classical Sociology
David Inglis
4 Cosmopolitanism as a Siamese- Twin Global Concept
Stéphane Dufoix
5 Ulrich Beck's Critical Cosmopolitan Sociology
Estevão Bosco
6 Cosmopolitanism is a Humanism
Daniel Chernilo
7 Human Rights and Dignity
Sylvie Mesure
8 From Subaltern Cosmopolitanism to Post- Western Sociology
Laurence Roulleau-Berger
Part 2: Establishing Cosmopolitanism
9 Inequality and Global Justice
David Held and Pietro Maffettone
10 International Human Rights System
Daniel J. Whelan
11 Cosmopolitan Democracy
Daniele Archibugi
12 Cosmopolitanism and Multiculturalism
Alain Policar
13 Cosmopolitan Cities
Delphine Pagès-El Karoui
14 The Future That Europe Has Left Behind
Massimo Pendenza
Part 3: Experiencing Cosmopolitanism
15 Unpacking Cosmopolitan Memory
Hiro Saito
16 Hospitality, Cosmopolitanism, and Conviviality: On Relations with Others in Hostile Times
Magdalena Nowicka
17 International Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Global Age
Camille Schmoll
18 The Cosmopolitan Stranger
Esperança Bielsa
19 Aesthetico- Cultural Cosmopolitanism
Sylvie Octobre
20 The Cosmopolitan Individual in Tension
Vincenzo Cicchelli
Part 4: Challenging Cosmopolitanism: a Fractured Cosmopolis
21 The Nation- State in a Global World
John Agnew
22 Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Xenophobia and Ethnic Conflict
Paul Bagguley and Yasmin Hussain
23 Cosmopolitanism and Religion
Bryan S. Turner
24 The Dialectic of Populism and Cosmopolitanism
Lauren Langman
25 Terrorism as a Counter- Cosmopolitanism
Clive Walker
26 Competition for Global Hegemony
Frédéric Ramel
27 Capitalism and Cosmopolitanism
Robert Holton
Index
