Cosmopolitanism in hard times / edited by Vincenzo Cicchelli and Sylvie Mesure.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cicchelli, Vincenzo, editor.

Mesure, Sylvie, editor.

Series:

International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; Volume 136.

International studies in sociology and social anthropology ; Volume 136

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmopolitanism--Philosophy.

Cosmopolitanism.

Internationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, [2021]

Summary:

While each chapter seizes the dialectic of enlightenment and counter-enlightenment at work in the global world, the volume insists on the moral, intellectual, structural, and historical resources that still make cosmopolitanism a real possibility even in these hard times.

Contents:

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Splendors and Miseries of Cosmopolitanism

1 Introduction

2 In Principio Erat ... Globalization

3 Between Cross- pollination and Specificity

4 Anti-Cosmopolitanism: the Return of Counter-Enlightenment Ideas

5 Presentation of the Book

References

Part 1 Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 1 The First Axial Age and the Origin of Universalism

1 Introduction*

2 Man as a Universal Entity

3 Tian xia and Agorà: Two Pathways toward the Universal Conception of Man

Chapter 2 Kantian Cosmopolitanism

1 Attitudinal and Institutional Cosmopolitanism

2 The Natural Expansion of Legal Relations

3 The Universal Society in Its Final Form: the Right of the Citizen of the World

4 Conclusion

Chapter 3 Cosmopolitanism and Classical Sociology

2 Irrelevant Classics?

3 Back to Kant

4 The Cosmopolitan Features of Capitalism and Gesellschaft

5 Cosmopolitan Thematics in French Sociology

6 Conclusion

Chapter 4 Cosmopolitanism as a Siamese-Twin Global Concept

1 From an Early Mertonian Matrix to the Global Explosion

2 Cosmopolitanism and Globalization

3 Cosmopolitanism, Methodological Nationalism, and Non-Western Thinking: How Many Sociologies?

Chapter 5 Ulrich Beck's Critical Cosmopolitan Sociology

1 World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism

1.1 Cosmopolitan Realism: Risk, Cosmopolitanization, and Reflexivity

1.2 Methodological Cosmopolitanism

2 Three Criticisms

3 Final Considerations

Chapter 6 Cosmopolitanism Is a Humanism

1 The Mainstream Critique of Humanism: Heidegger and Beyond.

2 A Cosmopolitan Humanism: J.-P. Sartre

3 The Idea of Universal Empathy

Chapter 7 Human Rights and Dignity

1 The udhr, a Pivotal Moment

2 Dignity, a Debated Topic

3 The Principle of Dignity in the udhr: from Moral Cosmopolitanism to Legal Cosmopolitanism

4 'Hypocritical' Universality? A Rebuttal

Chapter 8 From Subaltern Cosmopolitanism to Post-Western Sociology

1 From the Cosmopolitan Turn to Non-Western West

2 Easternization of the Westernized East and Plurality of Epistemic Autonomies

3 Sinicization of Chinese Sociology and Plural Epistemic Autonomies

4 Partial Epistemic Autonomy and Eastern/Western Knowledge in Korea

5 Unstable Epistemic Autonomy in Japan

6 What Is Post-Western Sociology?

7 Epistemic Discontinuities and Common Space

7.1 Epistemic Discontinuities and Located Knowledge

7.2 Transnational Knowledge and Common Space

8 Conclusion

Part 2 Establishing Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 9 Inequality and Global Justice

2 Moral Foundations: the Cosmopolitan Plateau

3 The Implications of the Cosmopolitan Plateau

4 Global Poverty

5 Global Inequality

6 Concluding Remarks

Chapter 10 International Human Rights System

1 Historical Background

2 The Universal Declaration and the Covenants

3 Core International Instruments and Institutions

4 Evolution of Human Rights Standards and Law

5 Human Rights and Sovereignty

6 Assessment and the Future

Chapter 11 Cosmopolitan Democracy

2 Cosmopolitanism and International Integration

3 The Origin and Sources of Cosmopolitan Democracy

4 The Global Dimension of Cosmopolitan Democracy

5 Democratic Practice in a Globalizing Planet

6 Cosmopolitan Democracy as an Alternative to Nationalism

References.

Chapter 12 Cosmopolitanism and Multiculturalism

1 Egalitarian Dynamics and Diversity

2 Diversity as a Value

3 An Ethics of Coexistence

4 On the Status of Otherness

5 Culture: a Booby-trap Category

6 Domination as a Heuristic Notion

7 Collective Identities and Cosmopolitanism

8 Identity as a Philosophic Fable

9 Rooted Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 13 Cosmopolitan Cities

2 Desperately Seeking the 'Truly' Cosmopolitan City

3 'Cosmopolitan' Tales of Two Global Cities

4 'Bygone' Cosmopolitan Cities of the Ottoman Empire

5 Cosmopolitanism and Segregation in Wannabe Global City-States

Chapter 14 The Future That Europe Has Left Behind

2 Europe as a 'Privileged Space for Human Hope'

3 The Cosmopolitan Normative Identity of Europe

4 The Blurred Lines of EU Normative Cosmopolitanism

5 Conclusion

Part 3 Experiencing Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 15 Unpacking Cosmopolitan Memory

1 What Is 'Collective Memory'?

2 Which Collective Memory Is 'Cosmopolitan'?

3 What Is the Relationship between Cosmopolitan and National Memories?

Chapter 16 Hospitality, Cosmopolitanism, and Conviviality: On Relations with Others in Hostile Times

1 Europe's Refugee Drama

2 Hospitality, Cosmopolitanism, and the External Other

3 Hospitality, Conviviality, and the Other Within

3.1 Engagements with Difference

3.2 Interactions

3.3 Beyond Society and State

Chapter 17 International Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Global Age

1 The Stranger as a Figure of Cosmopolitanism

2 Cosmopolitanism: a Blind Spot in Migration Studies until the 2000s

3 The Migrant-trader: a Central Figure of Cosmopolitanism

4 Cities: Mobility Crossroads, Cosmopolitan Crossroads?.

5 Plural Mobilities and Urban Tensions: Cosmopolitan Logics under Siege in Gentrified and Touristic Neighborhoods

6 Tourism and the Cosmopolitan Gaze

7 Conclusion: Cosmopolitanism and Mobility, an Obvious Relationship?

Chapter 18 The Cosmopolitan Stranger

2 Strangers in the Context of Generalized Strangeness

3 Conceptualizing the Cosmopolitan Stranger

Chapter 19 Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism

1 Competing for Global Cultural Imaginaries

2 A Cultural Mosaic

3 Cultural Odorlessness and Cultural Discount

4 Aesthetico-cultural Cosmopolitanism as an Innovative Approach to Cultural Globalization

5 Conclusion: toward a Cosmopolitan Education

Chapter 20 The Cosmopolitan Individual in Tension

2 The Cosmopolitan Legacy and New Sociological Tools

3 Globalization as Janus Bifrons

4 The Cosmopolitan Spirit: Building a Relationship with the World

5 The Hermeneutics of Otherness

6 An Orientation toward Others

7 Cosmopolitan Belongings

8 A Splintered Socialization

9 Conclusion

Part 4 Challenging Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 21 The Nation-State in a Global World

1 States and Sovereignty

2 Sovereignty Regimes

3 Taking Back Control?

4 Conclusions

Chapter 22 Cosmopolitanism in an Age of Xenophobia and Ethnic Conflict

2 Cosmopolitanism: between Normative Political Philosophy and Sociological Realism

3 Three Instances of Anti-cosmopolitanism in the UK

4 Conclusion: after the Cosmopolitan Revolution Just Racism as Usual?

Chapter 23 Cosmopolitanism and Religion

2 The Rise of Populism

3 Populism and Religion

4 The Axial Age and Its Religions

5 Does Cosmopolitanism Have a Future?

6 Conclusion.

References

Chapter 24 The Dialectic of Populism and Cosmopolitanism

2 Cosmopolitanism

3 Populism

3.1 Political Economy

3.2 Kulturkampf

4 Character and Social Change

4.1 Cosmopolitanism and Character

4.2 Ideology

5 Conclusion: Mad Max or a Better World?

Chapter 25 Terrorism and Counterterrorism as Counter-cosmopolitanism

2 Terrorism as Counter-cosmopolitanism

3 Counterterrorism as Counter-cosmopolitanism

Chapter 26 Competition for Global Hegemony

1 Hegemony and Cosmopolitanism in International Relations Theories

1.1 Three Theoretical Relations

1.1.1 The Incompatibility of Hegemony with the Cosmopolitan Project

1.1.2 The Corruption of the Cosmopolitan Project

1.1.3 Complementarity with the Cosmopolitan Project

1.2 A Normative Tension: Machiavellian Moment v. Kantian Moment

2 Cosmopolitanism Prevented by the Competition for Hegemony

2.1 The Obsolescence of Major Wars for Hegemony Since 1945

2.2 Freedom of Navigation in the Global Commons: the Source of a New Competition

3 Cosmopolitanism Disputed in the Competition for Hegemony

3.1 Post-National Wars: toward a New Overlay

3.2 Opposition to 'Western Hegemony' through the Promotion of Alternative Values

Chapter 27 Capitalism and Cosmopolitanism

2 Cosmopolitanism: Emancipatory Project or Ideology of Global Capitalism?

3 Conclusion

Index of Names and Notions.

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-04-43802-5

OCLC:

1227393902