Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent

ISBN-13: 9781138783423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 304 str.

Tamara Caraus; Camil Alexandru Parvu

Opis

The core idea shared by all cosmopolitan views is that all human beings belong to a single community and the ultimate units of moral concern are individual human beings, not states or particular forms of human associations. Nevertheless, the attempts to ground a political theory on overarching universal principles is in contradiction with the plurality of social, cultural, political, religious interpretative standpoints in the contemporary world. Is dissent cosmopolitan? Is there a legacy of dissent for a theory of cosmopolitanism? This book is a comparative, historical analysis of dissident thought and practice for contemporary debates on cosmopolitanism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Cosmopolitanism of Dissent Tamara Caraus  Part 1: Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Dissidence  1. Havel’s Agonistic Realism: What Can Cosmopolitan Thinkers Learn from the Eastern European Dissent? Bogdan Popa  2. Sakharov’s Dissent and Cosmopolitanism Áron Telegdi-Csetri  3. Remembering Dissidents: Cosmopolitan Challenges in Post-socialist Slovenia Ksenija Vidmar-Horvat  4. Is Liu Xiaobo a Rooted Cosmopolitan? A Critical Examination of his Dissent from a Historical Perspective Hermann Aubié  5. Aung San Suu Kyi and Cosmopolitanism as the ‘Revolution of the Spirit’ Tamara Caraus  Part 2: Cosmopolitanism and the Legacy of Civil Disobedience  6. The Universalist Aspirations of Nationalist Dissent: Lessons from the Debates between Gandhi and Tagore Farah Godrej  7. Contestatory Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Martin Luther King’s Legacy Kostas Koukouzelis  8. Nelson Mandela and his Cosmopolitan Legacies Dan D. Lazea, Roxana Ghita, Camil Parvu  9. Civil Disobedience in Cosmopolitan Perspective: National Responsibility, Citizenship, Representation Michael Allen  Part 3: Cosmopolitanism and the Promise of Global Resistance  10. Dissent, ‘Counter-knowledge’ and Cosmopolitanism in the NO TAV movement Alessio Calabrese  11. Channeling Dissent: Multicultural Encounters with Cosmopolitan Normativity Joanna K. Rozpedowski  12. Global Citizenship vs. Cosmopolitanism: Lessons Learned from Chinese Dissidents, Global Indigenous Peoples Movement and Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities Barbara Arneil  13. The Logistics of Dissent: Prefigurative Politics in Occupy Wall Street Camil Parvu  Conclusions Camil Parvu

O autorze

Tamara Caraus is a researcher, at the New Europe College in Bucharest, Romania. Her currentarea of research is incosmopolitanism, radical political theory, agonistic democracy, dissidence/civil disobedience, global resistance. Tamara Caraus has undertaken several research projects in political philosophy at Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria; University of Uppsala, Sweden; University of Groningen, The Netherland; Oxford University, UK; University College London, UK; Palacky University of Olomouc, Czech Republic and others. Camil Alexandru Parvu is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the "Fundamenta Politica" Research Centre at the University of Bucharest. His current research focuses on two directions: the critical foundations of cosmopolitanism and the contemporary articulations of radical democracy and populism. His current publications monitor the renewal of democratic thought and questions about the nature of populism and political movements such as Occupy Wall Street.