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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461888103321

Titolo

After cosmopolitanism / / edited by Rosi Braidotti, Patrick Hanafin and Bolette Blaagaard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-64244-1

0-203-10212-6

1-136-23860-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlaagaardBolette

BraidottiRosi

HanafinPatrick

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Cosmopolitanism

Globalization - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- "Becoming-world" / Rosi Braidotti -- Cosmopolitanism in a multipolar world / David Held -- A cosmopolitics of singularities: rights and the thinking of other worlds / Patrick Hanafin -- The metaphysics of cosmopolitanism / Costas Douzinas -- The humanitarian imaginary: reflections on cosmopolitanism and mediation / Lilie Chouliaraki -- The fantasies of cosmopolitanism / Henrietta Moore -- Postcolonialism and cosmopolitanism: towards a worldly understanding of fascism and Europe's colonial crimes / Paul Gilroy -- Estrangement as pedagogy: the cosmopolitan vernacular / Sneja Gunew -- Global cosmopolitanism and nomad citizenship / Eugene Holland -- Destroying cosmopolitanism for the sake of the cosmos / Claire Colebrook.

Sommario/riassunto

At a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and practices of cosmopolitanism? Including contributions from leading figures across the humanities and social



sciences, After Cosmopolitanism takes up this question as its central challenge. Its core argument is the idea that our globalised condition forms the heart of contemporary cosmopolitan claims, which do not refer to a transcendental ideal, but are rather immanent