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Title Cosmopolitanism and its discontents rethinking politics in the age of Brexit and Trump / Edited by Ward Lee
Published Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Political theory for today
Political theory for today.
Contents Cicero between Cosmopolis and Republic / Cary J. Nederman -- Johannes Althusius's Cosmopolitan Defense of Local Politics / Nicholas Aroney and Simon P. Kennedy -- Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Jewish Political Thought / Vasileios Syros -- Rousseau's Paradoxical Cosmopolitan Anti-Cosmopolitanism / John T. Scott -- A Cosmopolitanism that Populists Could Love: Kant on National Honor / Jeffrey Church -- Citizen Marx: On His Distinction between Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism / Paul Christopher Gray -- Nietzsche's Good Europeans: Beyond Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism / Paul E. Kirkland -- Global Enframing, Authentic History, Dasein: Thoughts on the Preview of Heidegger's Beiträge zur Philosophie / José Daniel Parra -- John Rawls against the Clash of Civilizations / Michel Seymour -- Glocalism and Democracy in James Tully's Critique of Cosmopolitanism and Imperialism / Lee Ward -- Rethinking the Democratic Boundary Problem / Zoltan Miklosi and Zsolt Kapelner -- "Forced to be Free": Nationalism and the Hijab Controversy / Ann Ward -- Demos or No Demos?: Citizenship and Democracy in the EU / Claudia Wiesner -- A Decline in Democratic Say?: The Accounts of James Allan and Pierre Manent / Carl Eric Scott
Summary 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 Donald Trump in 2016?
Subject Cosmopolitanism.
World politics -- 21st century.
Political sociology.
Cosmopolitanism
Political sociology
World politics
Form Electronic book
Author Ward, Lee, editor
ISBN 9781793602602
1793602603