Perpetual War
Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
1st Edition
Published on 28. May 2012
256 pages
978-0-8223-9518-8 (ISBN)
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Arguing that intellectuals must critique bellicose U.S. nationalism, Bruce Robbins advocates cosmopolitanism in its traditional sense, as an elevation of loyalty to the good of humanity as a whole over loyalty to one's own nation.
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Bruce Robbins is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State and Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, and a coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation and Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Cosmopolitanism, New and Newer: Anthony Appiah 31
2. Noam Chomsky's Golden Rule 47
3. Blaming the System: Immanuel Wallerstein 67
4. The Sweatshop Sublime 93
5. Edward Said and Effort 115
6. Intellectuals in Public, or Elsewhere 137
7. War Without Belief: Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club 157
8. Comparative National Blaming: W. G. Sebald and the Bombing of Germany 173
Notes 191
Bibliography 221
Index 231
Introduction 1
1. Cosmopolitanism, New and Newer: Anthony Appiah 31
2. Noam Chomsky's Golden Rule 47
3. Blaming the System: Immanuel Wallerstein 67
4. The Sweatshop Sublime 93
5. Edward Said and Effort 115
6. Intellectuals in Public, or Elsewhere 137
7. War Without Belief: Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club 157
8. Comparative National Blaming: W. G. Sebald and the Bombing of Germany 173
Notes 191
Bibliography 221
Index 231
