
Cosmopolitanism
Millennial Quartet IV
Duke University Press
Will be published approx. on 10. September 2000
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Paperback/Softback
277 pages
978-0-8223-6481-8 (ISBN)
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This final installment of the Millennial Quartet addresses the question of whether cosmopolitanism-ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society-is simply the universalism of a Western particular. Assembling scholars from an array of disciplines including English literature and language, romance languages, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this special issue of Public Culture recenters the theory and history of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the traditional Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South Asia, China, and Africa. By examining new archives, framing new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new possibilities of political practice, these essays stretch the term cosmopolitanism to new definitions. On the one hand, cosmopolitanism may be taken to promise a form of supraregional political solidarity, but on the other, it may erode precisely those cultural differences that derive their meaning from a particular place and tradition. Given that most cosmopolitan political formations, from the Roman imperium to European imperialism to contemporary globalization, have been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and egalitarian cosmopolitan politics? At the most elevated level of conceptualization, while cosmopolitanism may promise a universalism of knowledge, it more typically represents an unwarranted generalization of a European idea or practice.
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English
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North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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978-0-8223-6481-8 (9780822364818)
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Dipesh Chakrabarty | Homi K. Bhabha | Sheldon Pollock
Cosmopolitanism
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05/2002
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Content
Introduction, Carol A. Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, and Dipesh Chakrabarty Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History, Sheldon Pollock The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism, Mamadou Diouf Cosmopolitan De-scriptions: Shanghai and Hong Kong, Ackbar Abbas The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism, Walter D. Mignolo Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai, Arjun Appadurai Universalism and Belonging in the Logic of Capital, Dipesh Chakrabarty Zhang Dali: Dialogue with a City, Wu Hung Urban Erotics and Senegal's Cosmopolitan Forms of the Nude, T. K. Biaya CONTRIBUTORS: Ackbar Abbas, Arjun Appadurai, T. K. Biaya, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol A. Breckenridge, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Mamadou Diouf, Wu Hung, Walter D. Mignolo, Sheldon Pollock All at the University of Chicago, Carol A. Breckenridge is Senior Lecturer in the Division of the Humanities and editor of Public Culture, Sheldon Pollock is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies, Homi K. Bhabha is Chester D. Tripp Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, and Dipesh Chakrabarty is Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations