An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world.
-Where are you from?- The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a -kosmo-polites, - or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses--on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of membership in some larger, more compelling collective.
Cosmopolitanisms works from the premise that there is more than one kind of...
An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world.
An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world.
-Where are you from?- The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a -kosmo-polites, - or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses--on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of membership in some larger, more compelling collective.
Cosmopolitanisms works from the premise that there is more than one kind of...
An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world.
From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suffering of countless others. In his new book Bruce Robbins examines the implications of this dynamic for humanitarianism and social justice. He locates the figure of the -beneficiary- in the history of humanitarian thought, which asks the prosperous to help the poor without requiring them to recognize their causal role in the creation of the abhorrent conditions they seek to remedy. Tracing how the beneficiary has manifested itself in the work of...
From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suff...
From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suffering of countless others. In his new book Bruce Robbins examines the implications of this dynamic for humanitarianism and social justice. He locates the figure of the -beneficiary- in the history of humanitarian thought, which asks the prosperous to help the poor without requiring them to recognize their causal role in the creation of the abhorrent conditions they seek to remedy. Tracing how the beneficiary has manifested itself in the work of...
From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suff...
