Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism

ISBN-13: 9781907747946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 200 str.

David Adams; Galin Tihanov

Opis

"Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism" brings together ten innovative contributions by outstanding scholars working across a wide array of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Interdisciplinary in its methodology and compass, with a strong comparative European dimension, the volume examines discourses ranging from literature, historiography, music and opera to anthropology and political philosophy. It makes an original contribution to the study of 18th-century ideas of universal peace, progress, and wealth as the foundation of future debates on cosmopolitanism. At the same time, it analyses examples of counter-reaction to these ideas and discusses the relevance of the Enlightenment for subsequent polemics on cosmopolitanism, including twenty-first century debates in sociology, politics, and legal theory.

Spis treści

Part I: (Trans) National Perspectives 1. Germany: The Straggler as Leader 2. Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, and Nationalism in the German and Austrian Enlightenment 3. Feeling across Borders: The Europeanization of Russian Nobility through Emotional Patterns Part II: Agents of Cosmopolitanism 4. Literary Cosmopolitanism and the Geography of Genius in Eighteenth-Century France 5. Spinoza's Impact on Europe 6. Cosmopolitan Book Publishing: The Case of the Encyclopédie Part III: Afterlives 7. Subjectivity and Cosmopolitan Enlightenment: Music and Don Giovanni 8. Heaven on Earth the Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise Again of the Concept of Progress in Anglo-American Anthropology 9. Cosmopolitanism in the Discursive Landscape of Modernity: Two Enlightenment Articulations 10. Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism: Western or Universal?

O autorze

David Adams