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The Cosmopolitan Imagination

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139483277
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cosmopolitan Imagination written by Gerard Delanty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerard Delanty provides a comprehensive assessment of the idea of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. He argues that cosmopolitanism has a critical dimension which offers a solution to one of the weaknesses in the critical theory tradition: failure to respond to the challenges of globalization and intercultural communication. Critical cosmopolitanism, he proposes, is an approach that is not only relevant to social scientific analysis but also normatively grounded in a critical attitude. Delanty's argument for a critical, sociologically oriented cosmopolitanism aims to avoid, on the one hand, purely normative conceptions of cosmopolitanism and, on the other, approaches that reduce cosmopolitanism to the empirical expression of diversity. He attempts to take cosmopolitan theory beyond the largely Western context with which it has generally been associated, claiming that cosmopolitan analysis must now take into account non-Western expressions of cosmopolitanism.

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination

Author : Marsha Meskimmon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136937056
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination written by Marsha Meskimmon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the processes of transnational and transcultural exchange typical of the global economy. Rather, art can change the way we imagine, understand and engage with the world and with others very different than ourselves. In this sense, art participates in a critical dialogue between cosmopolitan imagination, embodied ethics and locational identity. The development of a cosmopolitan imagination is crucial to engendering a global sense of ethical and political responsibility. By materialising concepts and meanings beyond the limits of a narrow individualism, art plays an important role in this development, enabling us to encounter difference, imagine change and make possible the new. This book asks what it means to inhabit a globalized world – how we might literally and figuratively make ourselves cosmopolitans, ‘at home’ everywhere. Contemporary art provides a space for this enquiry. Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination is structured and written through four ‘architectonic figurations’ – foundation, threshold, passage and landing – which simultaneously reference the built environment and the transformative structure of knowledge-systems. It offers a challenging new direction in the current literature on cosmopolitanism, globalisation and art.

Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination

Author : Stephanos Stephanides
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900430066X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination written by Stephanos Stephanides and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination brings together essays on literary and artistic practice involving cross-cultural transactions in the post-colonial world. The essays explore broad questions of ethics and aesthetics in the productive tension between language, culture, and the polis.

Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Tanya Agathocleous
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521762642
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century by : Tanya Agathocleous

Download or read book Urban Realism and the Cosmopolitan Imagination in the Nineteenth Century written by Tanya Agathocleous and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of cosmopolitanism and the growing importance of the city in nineteenth-century literature.

Nordic Orientalism

Author : Elisabeth Oxfeldt
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763501347
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Nordic Orientalism by : Elisabeth Oxfeldt

Download or read book Nordic Orientalism written by Elisabeth Oxfeldt and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nordic Orientalism explores the appropriation of Oriental imagery within Danish and Norwegian nineteenth-century nation-building. The project queries Edward Said''s binary notion of Orientalism and posits a more complex model describing how European countries on the periphery ? Denmark and Norway ? imported Oriental imagery from France to position themselves, not against their colonial Other, but in relation to central European nations. Examining Nordic Orientalism across a century in the context of modernization, urbanization and democratization the study furthermore shows how the Romanticists? naive treatment of the Orient was challenged by increased contact with the "real" Orient.

Pandemics, Politics, and Society

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110713403
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Pandemics, Politics, and Society written by Gerard Delanty and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an important contribution to our understanding of global pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It brings together the reflections of leading social and political scientists who are interested in the implications and significance of the current crisis for politics and society. The chapters provide both analysis of the social and political dimensions of the Coronavirus pandemic and historical contextualization as well as perspectives beyond the crisis. The volume seeks to focus on Covid-19 not simply as the terrain of epidemiology or public health, but as raising fundamental questions about the nature of social, economic and political processes. The problems of contemporary societies have become intensified as a result of the pandemic. Understanding the pandemic is as much a sociological question as it is a biological one, since viral infections are transmitted through social interaction. In many ways, the pandemic poses fundamental existential as well as political questions about social life as well as exposing many of the inequalities in contemporary societies. As the chapters in this volume show, epidemiological issues and sociological problems are elucidated in many ways around the themes of power, politics, security, suffering, equality and justice. This is a cutting edge and accessible volume on the Covid-19 pandemic with chapters on topics such as the nature and limits of expertise, democratization, emergency government, digitalization, social justice, globalization, capitalist crisis, and the ecological crisis. Contents Notes on Contributors Preface Gerard Delanty 1. Introduction: The Pandemic in Historical and Global Context Part 1 Politics, Experts and the State Claus Offe 2. Corona Pandemic Policy: Exploratory Notes on its ‘Epistemic Regime’ Stephen Turner 3. The Naked State: What the Breakdown of Normality Reveals Jan Zielonka 4. Who Should be in Charge of Pandemics? Scientists or Politicians? Jonathan White 5. Emergency Europe after Covid-19 Daniel Innerarity 6. Political Decision-Making in a Pandemic Part 2 Globalization, History and the Future Helga Nowotny 7. In AI We Trust: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Pushes us Deeper into Digitalization Eva Horn 8. Tipping Points: The Anthropocene and COVID-19 Bryan S. Turner 9. The Political Theology of Covid-19: a Comparative History of Human Responses to Catastrophes Daniel Chernilo 10. Another Globalisation: Covid-19 and the Cosmopolitan Imagination Frédéric Vandenberghe & Jean-Francois Véran 11. The Pandemic as a Global Total Social Fact Part 3 The Social and Alternatives Sylvia Walby 12. Social Theory and COVID: Including Social Democracy Donatella della Porta 13. Progressive Social Movements, Democracy and the Pandemic Sonja Avlijaš 14. Security for Whom? Inequality and Human Dignity in Times of the Pandemic Albena Azmanova 15. Battlegrounds of Justice: The Pandemic and What Really Grieves the 99% Index

Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination

Author : C. Patell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137107774
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination written by C. Patell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved.

The Cosmopolitan Tradition

Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674052498
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Cosmopolitan Tradition written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cosmopolitan political tradition defines people not according to nationality, family, or class but as equally worthy citizens of the world. Martha Nussbaum pursues this “noble but flawed” vision, confronting its inherent tensions over material distribution, differential abilities, and the ideological conflicts inherent to pluralistic societies.

Cosmopolitan Minds

Author : Alexa Weik von Mossner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292757654
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Minds written by Alexa Weik von Mossner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers—Kay Boyle, Pearl S. Buck, William Gardner Smith, Richard Wright, and Paul Bowles—who found themselves prompted to seek experiences outside of their home country, experiences that profoundly changed their self-understanding and creative imagination as they encountered alternative points of views and cultural practices in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Alexa Weik von Mossner offers a new perspective on the affective underpinnings of critical and reflexive cosmopolitanism by drawing on theories of emotion and literary imagination from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and cognitive literary studies. She analyzes how physical dislocation, and the sometimes violent shifts in understanding that result from our affective encounters with others, led Boyle, Buck, Smith, Wright, and Bowles to develop new, cosmopolitan solidarities across national, ethnic, and religious boundaries. She also shows how, in their literary texts, these writers employed strategic empathy to provoke strong emotions such as love, sympathy, compassion, fear, anger, guilt, shame, and disgust in their readers in order to challenge their parochial worldviews and practices. Reading these texts as emotionally powerful indictments of institutionalized racism and national violence inside and outside of the United States, Weik von Mossner demonstrates that our emotional engagements with others—real and imagined—are crucially important for the development of transnational and cosmopolitan imaginations.

Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization

Author : Lee Trepanier
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813140226
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization written by Lee Trepanier and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to advances in international communication and travel, it has never been easier to connect with the rest of the world. As philosophers debate the consequences of globalization, cosmopolitanism promises to create a stronger global community. Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization examines this philosophy from numerous perspectives to offer a comprehensive evaluation of its theory and practice. Bringing together the works of political scientists, philosophers, historians, and economists, the work applies an interdisciplinary approach to the study of cosmopolitanism that illuminates its long and varied history. This diverse framework provides a thoughtful analysis of the claims of cosmopolitanism and introduces many overlooked theorists and ideas. This volume is a timely addition to sociopolitical theory, exploring the philosophical consequences of cosmopolitanism in today's global interactions.

The Cosmopolitan Military

Author : Jonathan Gilmore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137032278
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Cosmopolitan Military written by Jonathan Gilmore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role should national militaries play in an increasingly globalised and interdependent world? This book examines the often difficult transition they have made toward missions aimed at protecting civilians and promoting human security, and asks whether we might expect the emergence of armed forces that exist to serve the wider human community.

Fluid New York

Author : May Joseph
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822378884
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Fluid New York written by May Joseph and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Sandy was a fierce demonstration of the ecological vulnerability of New York, a city of islands. Yet the storm also revealed the resilience of a metropolis that has started during the past decade to reckon with its aqueous topography. In Fluid New York, May Joseph describes the many ways that New York, and New Yorkers, have begun to incorporate the city's archipelago ecology into plans for a livable and sustainable future. For instance, by cleaning its tidal marshes, the municipality has turned a previously dilapidated waterfront into a space for public leisure and rejuvenation. Joseph considers New York's relation to the water that surrounds and defines it. Her reflections reach back to the city's heyday as a world-class port—a past embodied in a Dutch East India Company cannon recently unearthed from the rubble at the World Trade Center site—and they encompass the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. They suggest that New York's future lies in the reclamation of its great water resources—for artistic creativity, civic engagement, and ecological sustainability.

Whose Cosmopolitanism?

Author : Nina Glick Schiller
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785335065
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Whose Cosmopolitanism? written by Nina Glick Schiller and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitanism’s possibilities, aspirations and applications—as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents—so as to offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected question: whose cosmopolitanism? The book investigates when, where, and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference.

Cosmopolitan Novel

Author : Berthold Schoene
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748640835
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Novel written by Berthold Schoene and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While traditionally the novel has been seen as tracking the development of the nation state, Schoene queries if globalisation might currently be prompting the emergence of a new sub-genre of the novel that is adept at imagining global community. The book introduces a new generation of contemporary British writers (Rachel Cusk, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor and David Mitchell) whose work is read against that of established novelists Arundhati Roy, James Kelman and Ian McEwan. Each chapter explores a different theoretical key concept, including 'glocality', 'glomicity', 'tour du monde', 'connectivity' and 'compearance'. Key Features:* Defines the new genre of the 'cosmopolitan novel' by reading contemporary British fiction as responsive to new global socio-economic formations* Expands knowledge of world culture, national identity, literary creativity and political agency by introducing concepts from globalisation and cosmopolitan theory into literary studies * Explores debates on Britishness and 'the contemporary' with close reference to the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9/11/1989 and the World Trade Centre attacks on 11/9/2001 * Introduces a new generation of British writers within a complex global context by drawing on Jean-Luc Nancy's work on community and creative world-formation

Cosmopolitanism

Author : Robert Fine
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134164181
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitanism written by Robert Fine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of cosmopolitanism has informed some of the most important developments in current sociology. It has changed the way in which we think about a vast array of issues: the forces of globalization, the resurgence of nationalism, the future of political community in Europe, the role of international law in social life, changing forms of violence and even the life of the mind. This book explains what cosmopolitanism is and why it has grabbed the sociological imagination. Robert Fine explores the concept of cosmopolitanism and its application to a range of contemporary issues, including: the future of Europe the role of human rights, global governance and perpetual peace in the construction of a cosmopolitan order crimes against humanity the justification of humanitarian military interventions the extension of democracy beyond national limits. This book offers an innovative mix of theoretical and socio-political elements that will be of great interest to students and researchers in the fields of international political theory, international relations, social theory and cultural studies.

The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life

Author : Elijah Anderson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340511
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life written by Elijah Anderson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Yale sociology professor discusses how everyday people meet the demands of urban living through islands of civility he calls "cosmopolitan canopies" and describes how activities carried out under this canopy can ease racial tensions and promote harmony.

Mediated Cosmopolitanism

Author : Alexa Robertson
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745649483
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Mediated Cosmopolitanism written by Alexa Robertson and published by Polity. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the analysis of over 2000 news reports broadcast on national and global channels and interviews with journalists and audience members, 'Mediated Cosmopolitanism' illustrates that the same everyday stories about the world can take on different meanings in different cultures.