Cosmopolitanism and its discontents rethinking politics in the age of Brexit and Trump

This volume examines the cosmopolitanism ideal from ancient to contemporary times. It grapples with the question: Is there still relevance today for the idea of the "citizen of the world" that transcends national borders in the aftermath of the Brexit Referendum result and election of Dona...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ward, Lee
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD Lexington Books, [2020]
Series:Political theory for today.
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Online Access:EBSCOhost
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-Title
  • Series
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Contextualizing the Age of Brexit and Trump
  • PART I: FORESHADOWING OF THE COSMOPOLITANISM DEBATE BEFORE KANT
  • 1 Cicero between Cosmopolis and Republic
  • 2 Johannes Althusius's Cosmopolitan Defense of Local Politics
  • 3 Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Jewish Political Thought
  • 4 Rousseau's Paradoxical Cosmopolitan Anti-Cosmopolitanism
  • PART II: KANT'S COSMOPOLITANISM AND ITS CRITICS
  • 5 A Cosmopolitanism that Populists Could Love: Kant on National Honor
  • 6 Citizen Marx: On His Distinction between Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism
  • 7 Nietzsche's Good Europeans: Beyond Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
  • 8 Global Enframing, Authentic History, Dasein: Thoughts on the Preview of Heidegger's Beiträge zur Philosophie
  • PART III: COSMOPOLITANISM IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICS AND ECONOMICS
  • 9 John Rawls against the Clash of Civilizations
  • 10 Glocalism and Democracy in James Tully's Critique of Cosmopolitanism and Imperialism
  • 11 Rethinking the Democratic Boundary Problem
  • PART IV: POPULISM, NATIONALISM, AND DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP
  • 12 "Forced to be Free": Nationalism and the Hijab Controversy
  • 13 Demos or No Demos? Citizenship and Democracy in the EU
  • 14 A Decline in Democratic Say? The Accounts of James Allan and Pierre Manent
  • Index
  • List of Contributors