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Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment / edited by Joan-Pau Rubiés (ICREA & Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Neil Safier (Brown University)

Rubiés, Joan Pau [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Safier, Neil [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023

1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 262 Seiten)

Englisch

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-009-30537-2 (ebook); 978-1-009-30534-1 (hardback); 978-1-009-30532-7 (paperback)

978-1-009-30534-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1377285047     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781009305372

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Basisklassifikation: 15.34 (Europäische Geschichte 1492-1789) ; 71.59 (Kultursoziologie: Sonstiges)

*Europa ; Weltbürgertum ; Aufklärung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Cosmopolitanism -- History -- 18th century -- Europe ; Enlightenment ; Intellectual life -- History -- 18th century

As we face new global challenges - from climate change to the international political order - the need to re-examine the historical roots of cosmopolitanism and liberal principles on a global scale has become increasingly central to the political conversation. Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment brings together leading scholars in cultural history, the history of ideas and global politics in order to reassess the complexity of cosmopolitanism during the Enlightenment and its various interpretations over time. Through a fresh and revisionist perspective, the volume explores issues of universalism and cultural diversity, the idea of civilization, race, gender, empire, colonialism, global inequality, national patriotism, international and civil conflict, and other forms of political discourse, challenging the simple negative stereotype that the Enlightenment was inevitably hierarchical and Eurocentric. This timely intervention into the debate about the legacy of the Enlightenment highlights both the plurality and the continuing relevance of Enlightened cosmopolitanism to contemporary global concerns.