Feeling Global : Internationalism in Distress / Bruce Robbins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robbins, Bruce, Author.

Series:

Cultural front (Series)

Cultural Front ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Internationalism.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1999]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization. Building on his previous work, Robbins here takes up the question of the status of international human rights. Robbins' conception of internationalism is driven not only by the imperatives of global human rights policy, but by an understanding of transnational cultures, thus linking practical policymaking to cultural politics at the expense of neither. Robbins' cultural criticism, in other words, affords us much more than an understanding of how culture "shapes our lives." Instead, Robbins shows, particularly in his discussions of Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty, Susan Sontag, Michael Walzer and others, how "culture" itself has become a term that blocks—for commentators on both the right and the left—serious engagement with the contemporary cosmopolitan ideal of a nonuniversalist discourse of human rights. Rescuing "cosmopolitanism" itself from its connotations of leisured individuals loyal to no one and willing to sample all cultures at will, Feeling Global presents a compelling way to think about the ethical obligations of intellectuals at a time when their place in the new world order is profoundly uncertain.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. INTERNATIONALISM IN DISTRESS

2. SOME VERSIONS OF U.S. INTERNATIONALISM

3. THE WEIRD HEIGHTS

4. FEELING GLOBAL

5. UPWARD MOBILITY IN THE POSTCOLONIAL ERA

6. SECULARISM, ELITISM, PROGRESS, AND OTHER TRANSGRESSIONS

7. SAD STORIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE

8. ROOT, ROOT, ROOT

AFTERWORD

NOTES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-209) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-6937-3

0-585-48043-5

OCLC:

782878037