Critically interrogating the popular concept of cosmopolitanism, this book offers new insight of what it means to be a world citizen today. Editor(s): O'Byrne, Darren; Rosa, Sybille de la. Num Pages: 210 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFS; JHB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490. . 2015. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Cosmopolitan Ideal: Challenges and Opportunities
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (UK)
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 178348229X
ISBN 13: 9781783482290
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Cosmopolitanism has resurfaced as a prominent perspective within philosophy and the social sciences. Its critics, though, suggest that contemporary cosmopolitanism is abstract and ultimately meaningless, or that it is the globalized expression of a very European, and modern, ideal.

This book aims to develop a new cosmopolitanism: one that is critical, inclusive, and relevant for the twenty-first century. The first section considers why we should behave as cosmopolitans at all; why do we owe some concept of justice to those who are suffering some form of injustice around the world? The book then moves beyond normative debates, using empirical studies on practical concerns to explore the ways in which we can break with traditional structures, practices, and power inequalities that have been based on disregard and subordination. Extending the scope of cosmopolitanism to incorporate issues such as gender, asylum and identity, to draw on non-Western as well as Western influences, the book re-conceptualizes terms like democracy, refuge and representation, in order to develop more inclusive and cosmopolitan understandings of them.

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Darren O’Byrne is reader of sociology and human rights at the University of Roehampton.

Sybille de la Rosa is assistant chair in the Department of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg.

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