Inhuman conditions : on cosmopolitanism and human rights / Pheng Cheah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheah, Pheng.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmopolitanism.

Human rights.

Globalization.

Social justice.

Capitalism--Social aspects.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Inhuman Conditions questions key ideas about what it means to be human. Cheah links influential arguments about the new cosmopolitanism to a perceptive examination of the older cosmopolitanism of Kant and Marx, and juxtaposes them with proliferating formations of collective culture to reveal the flaws in claims about the imminent decline of the nation-state and the obsolescence of popular nationalism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: Globalization and the Inhuman

I. The Cosmopolitical-Today

II. Human Rights and the Inhuman

Notes Index

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-313) and index.

ISBN:

9780674262645

0674262646

9780674029460

0674029461

OCLC:

1013950592