The Cosmopolitanism Reader

by Brown, Garrett W.; Held, David

• ISBN13: 9780745648729
• ISBN10: 074564872X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-28
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human beings have in common, and to explore the ethical basis of this. This has led to a renewed interest in examining the normative principles that might underpin efforts to resolve global collective action problems and to ameliorate serious global risks. This project can be referred to as the project of cosmopolitanism.In response to this renewed cosmopolitan enthusiasm, this volume has brought together 25 seminal essays in the development of cosmopolitan thought by some of the world's most distinguished cosmopolitan thinkers and critics. It is divided into six sections: classical cosmopolitanism, global justice, culture and cosmopolitanism, political cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitan global governance and critical examinations. This volume thus provides a thorough and extensive introduction to contemporary cosmopolitan thought and acts as a definitive source for those interested in cosmopolitan thinking and its critics.

Author Biography

Garrett Wallace Brown is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at London School of Economics and Political Science and Visiting University Professor of Global Policy at the Central European University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Editors' Introduction	p. 1
Kant and Contemporary Cosmopolitanism Introduction	p. 15
Idea of a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose	p. 17
Kant and Cosmopolitanism	p. 27
Kant's Cosmopolitanism	p. 45
A Kantian Approach to Transnational Justice	p. 61
Cosmopolitan Global Justice	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
Justice and International Relations	p. 85
International Society from a Cosmopolitan Perspective	p. 100
Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty	p. 114
International Distributive Justice	p. 134
Cosmopolitanism, Nationality, States and Culture	p. 151
Introduction	p. 151
Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism	p. 155
What is Cosmopolitan?	p. 163
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism	p. 176
Global Distributive Justice and the State	p. 191
Cosmopolitan Politics	p. 213
Introduction	p. 213
The Cosmopolitan Manifesto	p. 217
Principles of Cosmopolitan Order	p. 229
Moving from Cosmopolitan Legal Theory to Legal Practice: Models of Cosmopolitan Law	p. 248
A Political Constitution for the Pluralist World Society?	p. 267
Cosmopolitanism, Global Issues, and Governance	p. 289
Introduction	p. 289
Reframing Global Governance: Apocalypse Soon or Reform!	p. 293
The Architecture of Cosmopolitan Democracy	p. 312
Humanitarian Intervention: Towards a Cosmopolitan Approach	p. 334
The Environment, Global Justice and World Environmental Citizenship	p. 351
Cosmopolitan Examinations and Critiques	p. 373
Introduction	p. 373
Cosmopolitanism	p. 377
The Problem of Global Justice	p. 393
On Cosmopolitanism	p. 413
Can International Organizations be Democratic? A Skeptic's View	p. 423
Citizenship in an Era of Globalization	p. 435
A Comprehensive Overview of Cosmopolitan Literature	p. 444
Index	p. 465
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