ISBN:
9781138783423
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (304 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Parallel Title:
Print version Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Cosmopolitanism
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are individual human beings, not states or particular forms of human associations. Nevertheless, the attempts to ground a political theory on overarching universal principles is in contradiction with the plurality of social, cultural, political, religious interpretative standpoints in the contemporary world. Is dissent cosmopolitan? Is there a legacy of dissent for a theory of cosmopolitanism? This book is a comparative, historical analysis of dissident t
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cosmopolitanism of Dissent; PART I Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Dissidence; 1 Havel's Agonistic Realism: What Can Cosmopolitan Thinkers Learn from the Eastern European Dissent?; 2 Remembering Dissidents: Cosmopolitan Challenges in Post-Socialist Slovenia; 3 Is Liu Xiaobo a Rooted Cosmopolitan? A Critical Examination of His Dissent from a Historical Perspective; 4 Aung San Suu Kyi and Cosmopolitanism as the 'Revolution of the Spirit'; PART II Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Civil Disobedience
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The Universalist Aspirations of Nationalist Dissent: Lessons from the Debates between Gandhi and Tagore6 Contestatory Cosmopolitan Citizenship: The Legacy of Martin Luther King; 7 Nelson Mandela and His Cosmopolitan Legacies; 8 Civil Disobedience in Cosmopolitan Perspective: National Responsibility, Citizenship, Representation; PART III Cosmopolitanism and the Promise of Global Resistance; 9 Dissent, 'Counter-Knowledge' and Cosmopolitanism in the NO TAV Movement
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Global Citizenship versus Cosmopolitanism: Lessons Learned from Chinese Dissidents, Global Indigenous Peoples Movement and the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities11 Channeling Dissent: Multicultural Encounters with Cosmopolitan Normativity; 12 The Logistics of Dissent: Prefigurative Politicsin Occupy Wall Street; Conclusions; Selected Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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