Posted in Book reviews, Cosmopolitanism, tagged Cosmopolitan Vision, Cosmopolitanism, methodological cosmopolitanism, reflexive modernity, Ulrich Beck on 28 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Beck, Ulrich. The Cosmopolitan Vision. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006.
Summary of the Introduction
The introduction opens with the opposition cosmopolitanism/patriotism. Today this old debate is over because the human condition has become cosmopolitan (2)
Cosmopolitanism is no more a controversial rational idea.
The “cosmopolitan outlook”: “Global sense, a sense of boundarylessness. An everyday, historically alert, reflexive [...]
Posted in Articles, Cosmopolitanism, tagged Community, Cosmopolitanism, David Held on 26 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Held, David. “Culture and Political Community: National, Global, and Cosmopolitan.” In Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context, Practice, edited by Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen, 48-58. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
1. Historical backdrop
The globalisation of culture has a long history. The expansion of great religions, pre-modern empires, etc. “For most human history, these extensive ruling cultures passed [...]
Posted in Articles, Cosmopolitanism, tagged basic needs principles, Cosmopolitanism, international justice, justice, theory of cosmopolitan justice on 24 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Copp, David. “International justice and the basic needs principle.” In The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, edited by Gillian Brock and Harry Brighouse, 39-54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
“Justice requires a state in favourable circumstances to enable its members to meet their basic needs throughout a normal lifespan”: the “basic needs principle” (39).
How to expand [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Cosmopolitanism, tagged Indian literature, justice, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, post-colonialism, Tagore on 22 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The book is like a diamond sparkling many facettes. I retain the opposition between patriotism and cosmopolitanism – an opposition also noticed by Martha Nussbaum in her article “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism” published in the Boston Review, 1994.
“I am willing,” he said, “to serve my country; but my worship I reserve for Right which is far [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Cosmopolitanism, tagged communication, cosmopolitan theory, Cosmopolitanism, culture theory, dialogic process, identity on 21 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
Benhabib, Seyla (2002), The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Global integration is progressing parallel to social disintegration (separatisms, international terrorism, national revival). “Yet wether [sic] we call the current movements “struggles for recognition” (Charles Taylor, Nancy Fraser, and Axel Honneth), “identity/difference movements,” [sic] (Iris Young, [...]
Posted in Articles, Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, tagged Cosmopolitan monikers, Cosmopolitan pseudonyms, Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, Europe, France on 19 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Rosenfeld, Sophia. “Citizens of Noweher in Particular: Cosmopolitanism, Writing and Political Engagement in Eighteenth-Century Europe.” National Identities 4, no. 1 (2002): 25-43.
Contention of the essay: the development of the conceptual space of political engagement among private subjects cannot be reduced to the creation of national loyalties. A body of literature existed, produced in the [...]
Posted in Articles, Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, tagged Anacharsis Cloots, Cosmopolitanism, Enlightenment, French Enlightenment, universalism, universalist utopia on 18 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mortier, R. (2000). Le rêve universaliste de l’”Orateur du Genre humain”. In R. Mortier, Les Combats des Lumières (pp. 385-394). Paris: Aux amateurs de livres international.
The Universalist idea was not something new or invented in the eighteenth century. However, the transformation of the feeling of being human into concrete political and social systems is something [...]
Posted in Articles, Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, tagged Cosmopolitanism, eighteenth century France, Enlightenment, French Enlightenment, Gonthier Louis Fink on 17 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Fink, Gonthier Louis (1997) “Cosmopolitisme.” In Dictionnaire européen des lumières, edited by Michel Delon, 277-279. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
« Le XVIIIe siècle est le siècle du cosmopolitisme » (L. Réau). (277)
« En 1690, le Dictionnaire universel de Furetière, qui ne connaît pas encore le terme « cosmopolite », le définit indirectement à [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, tagged Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, Enlightenment, Intellectual history, Karen O'Brien on 14 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history
Cosmopolitan history:
“‘Cosmopolitanism’ is no longer a term much favoured by intellectual historians: as an idea, it seems to lack intellectual content; as a category of political thought, it has no referent. [footnote: “the last investigation of this idea was Thomas J. Schlereth]. The term is occasionally invoked by literary and cultural historians [...]
Posted in Articles, Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, tagged Cosmopolite, Pierre Hazard on 13 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Historiographie du mot “cosmopolite.”
Hazard, Pierre (1930) “Cosmopolite.” In Mélanges d’histoire littéraire générale et comparée offerts à Fernand Baldensperger, 354-364. Paris: Libraire ancienne Honoré Champion.
Résumé:
Apparition au XVIe siècle : 1560 Guillaume Postel De la République des Turcs et, là où l’occasion s’offrera,
des mœurs et des lois de tous muhamedistes, par Guillaume Postel, cosmopolite. L’auteur [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Eighteenth century, nineteenth century, tagged Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitanism and patriotism, French empire, Marc Bélissa, Republican order, Sister-Republics on 11 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bélissa analyses the conquests made by the new French Republic in Italy (an IV-V), Switzerland (an VI-VII), Holland (an III), and Belgium (an III-IV). These countries are called “sister-Republics.” Patriots in these “sister-Republics” are European militants and support the French Republic, at first, in its fight against monarchical Europe (91).
These patriots have conscious to be [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, tagged Cosmopolitanism, Empire, Enlightenment, French empire, French political thought, French revolution, Napoleon on 10 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dédéyan, Charles (1976) Le cosmopolitisme européen sous la Révolution et l’Empire. 2 vols. Paris: Société d’édition d’enseignement supérieur.
One of the rare books of intellectual history about cosmopolitanism in Europe. Written in French, it is focusing on the periods immediately after the Enlightenment: the French Revolution and the first Empire under Napoléon Bonaparte. It [...]
Posted in Articles, Cosmopolitanism, Research themes, tagged American debate, cosmopolitanism and patriotism, education, Nussbaum, patriotism on 9 November 2008 | 1 Comment »
Martha C. Nussbaum, professor at University of Chicago Law School, published in 1994 an article praising a “cosmopolitan stoic education” over a “national education” that started debates in the English speaking world about cosmopolitanism. The article is a reaction against Richard Rorty and Sheldon Hackney, and is therefore answering an internal Northern American debate. Published [...]
Posted in Book reviews, Cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, tagged Cosmopolitanism, Definition of cosmopolitanism, Eighteenth century, Enlightenment, Franklin, history of cosmopolitanism, Hume, Voltaire on 3 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
Schlereth, Thomas (1977) The Cosmopolitan Ideal in Enlightenment Thought: Its Form and Function in the Ideas of Franklin, Hume, and Voltaire, 1694-1790. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
Thomas J. Schlereth studied how the cosmopolitan ideal had a “noticeable impact on Enlightenment intellectual life throughout the trans-Atlantic community”.[1] But Schlereth does not [...]
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Obama’s Foreign Policy: A Cosmopolitan Policy in the Interests of the U.S.A.
Posted in Cosmopolitan comments on the news, tagged American foreign policy, Cosmopolitan foreign policy, cosmopolitcs, international relations, Obama's foreign policy, post-modern foreign policy, US foreign policy, US presidential election 2008 on 7 November 2008 | 2 Comments »
Candidate Obama signed an article in the well-known scholarly journal of international relations Foreign Affairs, July/August 2007, entitled “Common Security for our Common Humanity.” There are a few reasons why Obama can be called a cosmopolitan politician as well as his policy agenda a program for cosmopolitics. One thing that is immediately striking is that [...]
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