LEADER 03427oam 2200625I 450 001 9910822596003321 005 20240131143859.0 010 $a1-135-91572-5 010 $a0-203-55091-9 010 $a1-299-46939-6 010 $a1-135-91565-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203550915 035 $a(CKB)2550000001019573 035 $a(EBL)1170325 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860363 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11454378 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860363 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10898187 035 $a(PQKB)11695525 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1170325 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1170325 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10687245 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL478189 035 $a(OCoLC)840466751 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB133520 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001019573 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIdeas to die for $ethe cosmopolitan challenge /$fGiles Gunn 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (198 p.) 225 1 $aGlobal horizons ;$v10 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-81388-3 311 $a0-415-81384-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Also by Giles Gunn; 1 Introduction: mapping and remapping the global; 2 Being other-wise: cosmopolitanism and its discontents; 3 Pragmatist alternatives to absolutist options; 4 Culture and the misshaping of world order; 5 America's gods then and now; 6 War narratives and American exceptionalism; 7 The transcivilizational, the intercivilizational, and the human; 8 Globalizing the humanities and an "other" humanism; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms--religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often used to support the claim that cosmopolitanism is impotent to resist such totalizing ideologies because it is either a Western conceit or a globalist fiction, Gunn argues that cosmopolitanism is neither. Situating his discussion in an emphatically global context, Gunn shows how cosmopolitanism has been effective in resisting such essentialisms and authoritarianisms precisely because it is more pragmatic than prescriptive, more self-critical than self-interested and finds several of its foremost recent expressions in the work of an Indian philosopher, a Palestinian writer, and South African story-tellers. This kind of cosmopolitanism offers a genuine ethical alternative to the politics of dogmatism and extremism because it is grounded on a new delineation of the human and opens toward a new, indeed, an "other," humanism"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aGlobal horizons ;$v10. 606 $aCosmopolitanism 615 0$aCosmopolitanism. 676 $a306 686 $aPOL000000$aPOL010000$2bisacsh 700 $aGunn$b Giles B.$0859064 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822596003321 996 $aIdeas to die for$93923247 997 $aUNINA