ISBN:
9780231161107
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (353 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013
Series Statement:
New Directions in Critical Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Radical Cosmopolitics : The Ethics and Politics of Democratic Universalism
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
While supporting the cosmopolitan pursuit of a world that respects all rights and interests, James D. Ingram believes political theorists have, in their approach to this project, compromised its egalitarian and emancipatory principles. Focusing on recent debates without losing sight of cosmopolitanism's ancient and Enlightenment roots, Ingram confronts the philosophical difficulties of defending universal ideals and the implications for ethics and political theory.In morality as in politics, theorists have generally focused first on discovering universal values and second on their
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction ; The Cosmopolitan Revival and Its Reversals; From Cosmopolitanism to Cosmopolitics; Cosmopolitanism as a Problem in Practical Philosophy ; Kantian Conundrums and a Critical-Democratic Alternative; Part One: COSMOPOLITANISM FROM THE TOP DOWN ; 1. Universalism in History ; A Short History of Western Cosmopolitanisms; A Fin de Siecle Renaissance; 2. Cosmopolitanism in Ethics: Tensions of the Universal ; The Problem of the Human: Anthropological Universalism ; From the Standpoint of Redemption: Procedural Universalism
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Cosmopolitanism in Ethics: Realizing the Universal Achieving Perpetual Peace: Right, Progress, Publicity ; Cosmopolitan Democracy, Cosmopolitan Dilemmas; Part Two: COSMOPOLITICS FROM THE BOTTOM UP ; 4. Rethinking Ethical Cosmopolitanism: From Universalism to Universalization ; Universalism as the Critique of False Universals; The Measure of Equality ; 5. Rethinking Political Cosmopolitanism: From Democracy to Democratization ; Democracy as Political Action ; Democratic Universalism as Cosmopolitics; 6. Cosmopolitics in Practice: The Politics of Human Rights
Description / Table of Contents:
Human Rights Politics as Implementation Human Rights Politics as Democratic Action ; Conclusion ; Three Realisms and Their Lessons; A Realism of Possibility ; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/ingr16110
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