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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778826703321

Autore

Cavallar Georg

Titolo

Imperfect cosmopolis [[electronic resource] ] : studies in the history of international legal theory and cosmopolitan ideas / / Georg Cavallar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2011

ISBN

0-7083-2368-5

0-7083-2367-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Political philosophy now

Disciplina

320.50924

Soggetti

Cosmopolitanism

Internationalism

International law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Acknowledgements""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Introduction""; ""Vitoria, Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel:Accomplices of European Colonialism and Exploitation,or True Cosmopolitans?""; ""Vitoria, Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel:Accomplices of European Colonialism and Exploitation,or True Cosmopolitans?""; ""British Enlightenment: the Triumph of CommercialCosmopolitanism""; ""British Enlightenment: the Triumph of CommercialCosmopolitanism""; ""Kant and the �Miserable Comforters�:Contractual Cosmopolitanism""

""Kant and the ?Miserable Comforters?:Contractual Cosmopolitanism""""Late Eighteenth-century International Legal Theory:from Cosmopolis to the Idea of Europe""; ""Late Eighteenth-century International Legal Theory:from Cosmopolis to the Idea of Europe""; ""Immigration, Rights and the Global Community:Pufendorf, Vattel, Bluntschli and Verdross""; ""Immigration, Rights and the Global Community:Pufendorf, Vattel, Bluntschli and Verdross""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Notes""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Select Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

The unifying theme of the book is the imperfect nature of the cosmopolitan approaches and schemes of selected writers in early



modern European history. It challenges the widespread assumption that the eighteenth century was a cosmopolitan century, and argues that many writers labelled as 'cosmopolitans' turn out to be half-way cosmopolitans at best, writers focussing on European society (rather than their own home countries), or endorsing a form of cosmopolitanism very different from contemporary notions. Individual chapters analyse the cosmopolitan dimension of the so-called 'classical' write