Building Cosmopolitan Communities
A Critical and Multidimensional Approach
1st Edition
Published on 13. August 2013
XII, 262 pages
978-1-137-34876-0 (ISBN)
Description
Building Cosmopolitan Communities contributes to current cosmopolitanism debates by evaluating the justification and application of norms and human rights in different communitarian settings in order to achieve cosmopolitan ideals. Relying on a critical tradition that spans from Kant to contemporary discourse philosophy, Nascimento proposes the concept of a "multidimensional discourse community." The multidimensional model is applied and tested in various dialogues, resulting in a new cosmopolitan ideal based on a contemporary discursive paradigm. As the first scholarly text to provide an interdisciplinary survey of the theories and discourses on human rights and cosmopolitanism, Building Cosmopolitan Communities is a valuable resource to scholars of philosophy, political science, social theory, and globalization studies.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan US
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XII, 262 p.
File size
1,46 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-34876-0 (9781137348760)
DOI
10.1057/9781137348760
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Person
Amos Nascimento is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Tacoma, USA. He is the author of Im Zwielicht der Aufklärung (2009) and editor of A Matter of Discourse (1997 ), Brasil: Perspectivas Internacionais (2001), and Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Cosmopolitan Ideals (with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, 2013).
Content
Introduction 1. Plural Discourse Communities as Point of Departure PART I: A CRITICAL AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH 2. The Transformations of the Critical Tradition 3. Discourse Philosophy as a Critical Framework PART II: COMMUNITIES, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND COSMOPOLITAN IDEALS 4. Individuality and Collectivity in Changing Concepts of Community 5. From Plurality to Global Human Rights Discourses 6. Cosmopolitan Ideals and the Norms of Universality 7. Cosmopolitan Communities under Construction Conclusion
