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Author Cicchelli, Vincenzo

Title Cosmopolitanism in Hard Times
Published Boston : BRILL, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (432 p.)
Series International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Ser
International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology Ser
Contents Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Splendors and Miseries of Cosmopolitanism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 In Principio Erat ... Globalization -- 3 Between Cross- pollination and Specificity -- 4 Anti-Cosmopolitanism: the Return of Counter-Enlightenment Ideas -- 5 Presentation of the Book -- References -- Part 1 Conceptualizing Cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 1 The First Axial Age and the Origin of Universalism -- 1 Introduction*
2 Man as a Universal Entity -- 3 Tian xia and Agorà: Two Pathways toward the Universal Conception of Man -- References -- Chapter 2 Kantian Cosmopolitanism -- 1 Attitudinal and Institutional Cosmopolitanism -- 2 The Natural Expansion of Legal Relations -- 3 The Universal Society in Its Final Form: the Right of the Citizen of the World -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3 Cosmopolitanism and Classical Sociology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Irrelevant Classics? -- 3 Back to Kant -- 4 The Cosmopolitan Features of Capitalism and Gesellschaft -- 5 Cosmopolitan Thematics in French Sociology
6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Cosmopolitanism as a Siamese-Twin Global Concept -- 1 From an Early Mertonian Matrix to the Global Explosion -- 2 Cosmopolitanism and Globalization -- 3 Cosmopolitanism, Methodological Nationalism, and Non-Western Thinking: How Many Sociologies? -- References -- Chapter 5 Ulrich Beck's Critical Cosmopolitan Sociology -- 1 World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism -- 1.1 Cosmopolitan Realism: Risk, Cosmopolitanization, and Reflexivity -- 1.2 Methodological Cosmopolitanism -- 2 Three Criticisms -- 3 Final Considerations -- References
Chapter 6 Cosmopolitanism Is a Humanism -- 1 The Mainstream Critique of Humanism: Heidegger and Beyond -- 2 A Cosmopolitan Humanism: J.-P. Sartre -- 3 The Idea of Universal Empathy -- References -- Chapter 7 Human Rights and Dignity -- 1 The udhr, a Pivotal Moment -- 2 Dignity, a Debated Topic -- 3 The Principle of Dignity in the udhr: from Moral Cosmopolitanism to Legal Cosmopolitanism -- 4 'Hypocritical' Universality? A Rebuttal -- References -- Chapter 8 From Subaltern Cosmopolitanism to Post-Western Sociology -- 1 From the Cosmopolitan Turn to Non-Western West
2 Easternization of the Westernized East and Plurality of Epistemic Autonomies -- 3 Sinicization of Chinese Sociology and Plural Epistemic Autonomies -- 4 Partial Epistemic Autonomy and Eastern/Western Knowledge in Korea -- 5 Unstable Epistemic Autonomy in Japan -- 6 What Is Post-Western Sociology? -- 7 Epistemic Discontinuities and Common Space -- 7.1 Epistemic Discontinuities and Located Knowledge -- 7.2 Transnational Knowledge and Common Space -- 8 Conclusion -- References -- Part 2 Establishing Cosmopolitanism -- Chapter 9 Inequality and Global Justice -- 1 Introduction
Notes Description based upon print version of record
2 Moral Foundations: the Cosmopolitan Plateau
Subject Cosmopolitanism -- Philosophy
Internationalism.
internationalism.
Internationalism
Form Electronic book
Author Mesure, Sylvie
ISBN 9789004438026
9004438025