Deep Cosmopolis: Rethinking World Politics and Globalisation

ISBN-13: 9781138066670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str.

Adam K. Webb

Opis

Traces an alternative strand of cosmopolitan thinking that cuts across centuries and civilisations, and suggests some important lessons for the contours of globalization in our own time.  Divided into two parts, Adam K. Webb digs into some fascinating currents of thought and practice in the ancient world, the Middle Ages, and the early modern period, across all major civilisations, and traces patterns of “deep cosmopolitanism.” to map out the lost promise of deep cosmopolitanism, with its logic quite unlike that of liberal globalization today.  He later draws out the lessons of deep cosmopolitanism for our own time, from the rise of new non-Western powers like China and India and what they offer the world, to religious tolerance, to global civil society, to cross-border migration.  A new perspective on world history, and a distinctive vision of globalization for this century which has the real potential to resonate with us all.

Recenzje

"Adam Webb brilliantly explores an alternative path to globalization with dashing originality and stunning erudition. Webb defends a cosmopolitanism that is at once rooted and diverse, culturally rich and historically sensitive. His vision of a "deep cosmopolis" draws at once on the virtues of "local knowledge" and the universalist impulse that is embedded within all human cultures, yet resists the homogenized and flattened form of globalization encouraged by an elite class dismissive of local diversity and impatient with the rich complexity of civilizations." —Patrick Deneen, University of Notre Dame

Spis treści

1. Circuits of the Sacred  2. Civilisation with a Capital C  3. Beyond the Frontiers  4. The World Religions  5. Mediæval Mirrors and the Virtuous Outsider  6. Strutting on the Stage of Empires  7. Missionaries, Mystics, and the Melding of Faiths  8. Modernity’s Derailments  9. Globalisation and New Landscapes of Power  10. Relearning How to Talk Across Traditions  11. Interreligious Dialogue and Its Limits  12. Homelands and Hospitality  13. World Citizens in the Making  14. Void or Cosmos?

O autorze

Adam K. Webb is Resident Professor of Political Science at the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre, which is one of the two overseas branches of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).