Cosmopolitanism

ISBN-13: 9780415392242 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 176 str.

Fine Robert; Robert Fine

Opis

Explains what cosmopolitanism is and why it has grabbed the sociological imagination. This book explores the concept of cosmopolitanism and its application to contemporary issues: the role of human rights, global governance and perpetual peace in the construction of a cosmopolitan.

Spis treści

Preface: Twenty Theses on Cosmopolitan Social Theory  1. Taking the ‘ism’ Out of Cosmopolitanism: The Equivocations of the ‘New Cosmopolitanism’  2. Confronting Reputations: Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and Hegel’s Critique  3. Cosmopolitanism and Political Community: The Equivocations of Constitutional Patriotism  4. Cosmopolitanism and International Law: From the ‘Law of Peoples’ to the ‘Constitutionalisation of International Law’  5. Cosmopolitanism and Humanitarian Military Intervention: War, Peace and Human Rights  6. Cosmopolitanism and Punishment: Prosecuting Crimes Against Humanity  7. Cosmopolitanism and the Life of the Mind: The Critique of Reason  8. Conclusion