Thinking Differently About Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Eccentricity, and the Globalized World

ISBN-13: 9781612050799 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 272 str.

Marianna Papastephanou

Opis

Cosmopolitanism and relevant notions are widely discussed in philosophy of education and educational studies more generally. There is a vast literature on the topic that often invites conceptual discussion and requires some work in the direction of crucial clarifications. Thinking Differently About Cosmopolitanism argues that a new conception of cosmopolitanism is needed and addresses this need by formulating a conception of cosmopolitanism as an "eccentric" ethico-political ideal. Such cosmopolitanism is eccentric in the sense that it decenters the self, it cultivates centrifugal virtues, and it questions the concern for the globally enriched self. In this book, Papastephanou lays the foundation for a more refined conception of the topic, and provides a fruitful interdisciplinary discussion of its relation to globalization, Eurocentricism, developmentalism, and modernity.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Setting Up the New Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 2 Eccentric Cosmopolitanism and a Globalized World; Chapter 3 A Critique of Globalist Positions; Chapter 4 Identity-versus-Difference Dilemmas; Chapter 5 Home, Homelessness, and the Cosmopolitan Self; Chapter 6 Who’s Cosmopolitan?; Chapter 7 Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism as Boundary Discourses; Chapter 8 The Importance of Conceptual Reconsiderations; Chapter 9 Revisiting Patriotism; Chapter 10 Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Justice; Chapter 11 Reflections on an All-Encompassing Conception of Cosmopolitanism;

O autorze

Marianna Papastephanou has studied and taught at the University of Cardiff, UK. She has also studied and researched in Berlin, Germany. She is currently teaching Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests include political philosophy; the modern vs. postmodern divide; utopia; the Frankfurt School; and epistemological, linguistic, and ethical issues in education. She has written numerous articles on these topics, and she is the editor of K-O Apel: From a Transcendental-Semiotic Point of View (Manchester: MUP, 1997) and the author of Educated Fear and Educated Hope (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009).