Questioning Cosmopolitanism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hooft, Stan van (Editor), Vandekerckhove, Wim (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Studies in Global Justice, 6
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political science.; Ethics.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Political philosophy.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Political Philosophy.; Political Science.

Cosmopolitanism is an emerging theme in studies of global justice and provides a meeting point between theorists of international law, political science, political philosophy, applied ethics, economics, development studies, and international relations. It insists that each individual in the world ha...

Table of Contents:

• Section 1: Cosmopolitan Subjectivity
• Questioning the Questioning of Cosmopolitanism
• Moral Progress and World History: Ethics and Global Interconnectedness
• Cosmopolitanism, Identity and Recognition
• Redeeming Freedom
• The Cosmopolitan Self and the Fetishism of Identity
• Reconciling Global Duties with Special Responsibilities: Towards a Dialogical Ethics
• The Cosmopolitan Stranger
• Questioning Cosmopolitan Justice
• Feasibility Constraints and the Cosmopolitan Vision: Empirical Reasons for Choosing Justice Over Humanity
• Section 2: Global Institutions
• Do Cosmopolitan Ethics and Cosmopolitan Democracy Imply Each Other?
• Global Institutionalism and Justice
• Reconsidering the State: Cosmopolitanism, Republicanism and Global Governance
• Cosmopolitan Corporate Responsibilities.