Inhuman Conditions
On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
Published on 1. July 2009
336 pages
978-0-674-02946-0 (ISBN)
Description
Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Cheah questions key ideas about what it means to be human, and reveals the flaws in claims about the imminent decline of the nation-state and the obsolescence of popular nationalism.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-02946-0 (9780674029460)
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01/2007
Harvard University Press
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Person
Pheng Cheah is Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley.
Content
I Ujitiqu of Cosmiopolitan Reas on 1. e osl(opolitical- Today 17 2. Postational Light 45 3. GCiten C ilntue: Rethinking Cosiopolttical F eedom i Tiasnational lismn 80 "4. lCinese Cos imopolitanism in Two Srniws and Postco-lonial Nalional Memory 20 II H a:in! nRiights and tthe Inhumanr ".5 Posi.(on)in g H riaon Right s in the (urrenrt C iobal Conjuncture 145 6 1Briging in o the Home a Stranger ar More Foreign Human r i hts and the Global Trade in Donmestic L abor 178 17. Humnaniy within the FielC of instrumentatit 230
