Thinking differently about cosmopolitanism : theory, eccentricity, and the globalized world / Marianna Papastephanou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Papastephanou, Marianna.

Series:

Interventions: education, philosophy & culture.

Interventions: education, philosophy & culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmopolitanism.

Globalization--Political aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

pages ; cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2012]

Summary:

Papastephanou (philosophy of education, U. of Cyprus) asserts that a new conception of cosmopolitanism is needed that "decenters the self, cultivates centrifugal virtues, and questions the inflated concern for a globally enriched self." She argues that diverse but incompatible understandings of cosmopolitanism plague academia, many failing to let go of modernist baggage (e.g. toxic universalism, Eurocentrism, developmentalism) and thereby producing false dilemmas. She claims that if cosmopolitanism is typically conceived in terms of external borders (e.g. walls, checkpoints, frontiers) that we must understand that internal boundaries of the self are what must be traversed if we are to cultivate a worthy ethico-political praxis. In later chapters she shows how patriotism and cosmopolitanism can complement one another. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Setting up the new cosmopolitanism

Eccentric cosmopolitanism and a globalized world

Critique of globalist positions

Identity versus difference dilemmas

Home, homelessness and the cosmopolitan self

Who's cosmopolitan?

Cosmopolitanism and patriotism as boundary discourses

Importance of conceptual reconsiderations

Revisiting patriotism

Patriotism, cosmopolitanism and justice

Reflections on an all-encompassing conception of cosmopolitanism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781612050799

1612050794

9781612050805

1612050808

9781612052229

1612052223

OCLC:

759916641