Title Inhuman conditions : on cosmopolitanism and human rights / Pheng Cheah

Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2006

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Description vi, 321 pages ; 25 cm Contents Introduction : globalization and the inhuman -- I Critique of cosmopolitan reason -- 1 The cosmopolitical - today -- 2 Postnational light -- 3 Given culture : rethinking cosmopolitical freedom in transnationalism -- 4 Chinese cosmopolitanism in two senses and postcolonial national memory -- II Human rights and the inhuman -- 5 Posit(ion)ing human rights in the current global conjuncture -- 6 "Bringing into the home a stranger far more foreign" : human rights and the global trade in domestic labor -- 7 Humanity within the field of instrumentality Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Cosmopolitanism. Human rights. Globalization. Social justice. Capitalism -- Social aspects. LC no. 2006043507 ISBN 9780674022959 cloth alkaline paper 0674022955 cloth alkaline paper 9780674023949 paper alkaline paper 0674023943 paper alkaline paper

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