ISBN:
9781782384465
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (263 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Weltbürgertum
;
Begriff
;
Sozialer Prozess
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. However those who invoke the cosmopolitan project rarely ask whose experience, understanding, or vision of cosmopolitanism is being described and for whose purposes? In response, this volume assembles contributors from different disciplines and theoretical backgrounds to examine cosmopolitanism's possibilities, aspirations and applications-as well as its tensions, contradictions, and discontents-so as to offer a critical commentary on the vital but often neglected question: whose cosmopolitanism? The book investigates when, where, and how cosmopolitanism emerges as a contemporary social process, global aspiration or emancipatory political project and asks whether it can serve as a political or methodological framework for action in a world of conflict and difference.
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