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Cosmopolitanism: Millennial Quartet IV (Volume 12) (Special Issue of Public Culture: Millinneial Quartet) - Softcover
This final installment of the Millennial Quartet addresses the question of whether cosmopolitanism—ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one’s particular society—is simply the universalism of a Western particular. Assembling scholars from an array of disciplines including English literature and language, romance languages, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this special issue of Public Culture recenters the theory and history of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the traditional Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South Asia, China, and Africa. By examining new archives, framing new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new possibilities of political practice, these essays stretch the term cosmopolitanism to new definitions. On the one hand, cosmopolitanism may be taken to promise a form of supraregional political solidarity, but on the other, it may erode precisely those cultural differences that derive their meaning from a particular place and tradition. Given that most cosmopolitan political formations, from the Roman imperium to European imperialism to contemporary globalization, have been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and egalitarian cosmopolitan politics? At the most elevated level of conceptualization, while cosmopolitanism may promise a universalism of knowledge, it more typically represents an unwarranted generalization of a European idea or practice.
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Carol A. Breckenridge teaches at the in the department of South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago and is the founding editor of Public Culture.
Sheldon Pollock is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago.
Homi K. Bhabha is Professor of English and African-American Studies at Harvard University.
Dipesh Chakrabarty teaches in the departments of history and South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago.
Sheldon Pollock is the The William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and
Indian Studies in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and
Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of
The language of the gods in the world of men : Sanskrit,
culture, and power in premodern India (2006) and editor of a number
of books, including LITERARY CULTURES IN HISTORY: RECONSTRUCTIONS
FROM SOUTH ASIA (2003) and (w/Homi Bhabha, Carol Breckenridge, and
Dipesh Chakrabarty) COSMOPOLITANISM (Duke, 2002).
"[E]xciting. . . . [B]rilliant clarity. . . ."
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--Eric Gable, "Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"
"[I]nteresting. . . . [D]azzling. . . . [I]nsightful. . . ."
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--Bruce Robbins, "The Journal of Asian Studies"
"[W]ith certain cosmopolitan expectations, one should be able to find much of theoretical, empirical, and methodological value."
--Sherwin Mendoza, "Politics and Culture"
"[I]mpressive. All the chapters are interesting and provocative on their own terms and geographers can learn much from it. . . ."
--Tim Cresswell," Gender, Place, and Culture"
"[T]he contributors provide a provocation, challenging scholars to integrate cosmopolitanism into social theory and critical practice."
--Stephen William Foster, "American Ethnologist"
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--Eric Gable, "Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"
"[I]nteresting. . . . [D]azzling. . . . [I]nsightful. . . ."
"
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--Bruce Robbins, "The Journal of Asian Studies"
"[W]ith certain cosmopolitan expectations, one should be able to find much of theoretical, empirical, and methodological value."
--Sherwin Mendoza, "Politics and Culture"
"[I]mpressive. All the chapters are interesting and provocative on their own terms and geographers can learn much from it. . . ."
--Tim Cresswell," Gender, Place, and Culture"
"[T]he contributors provide a provocation, challenging scholars to integrate cosmopolitanism into social theory and critical practice."
--Stephen William Foster, "American Ethnologist"
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- PublisherDuke University Press Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0822364816
- ISBN 13 9780822364818
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages241
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