Cosmopolitanism

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ISBN: 9780203087282 | 0203087283
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What is cosmopolitanism and how does it relate to a globalizing age? In this fascinating work Robert Fine explores the evolution of cosmopolitan thinking, its impact on social scientific thinking, and its application to questions of responsibility, violence and freedom.

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Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Taking the 'ism' out of cosmopolitanism: laying out the field	p. 1
The new cosmopolitanism within the social sciences	p. 2
Ulrich Beck and the critique of methodological nationalism	p. 6
The critique of the critique of methodological nationalism	p. 9
Post-universalism and the modern state	p. 14
The cosmopolitan vision	p. 17
Cosmopolitanism and its critics	p. 19
Cosmopolitanism and natural law: Kant and Hegel	p. 22
Kant's theory of cosmopolitanism	p. 22
Hegel's critique of Kant's cosmopolitanism	p. 29
Violence and the modern state	p. 36
Cosmopolitanism and political community: the equivocations of constitutional patriotism	p. 39
Constitutional patriotism and cosmopolitanism	p. 41
Constitutional patriotism and German nationalism	p. 44
Constitutional patriotism and the turn to Europe	p. 48
Constitutional patriotism and democracy	p. 52
Cosmopolitanism and natural law theory	p. 56
Cosmopolitanism and international law: from the 'law of peoples' to the 'constitutionalisation of international law'	p. 59
Cosmopolitan democracy and global civil society	p. 60
John Rawls and the Law of Peoples	p. 63
The constitutionalisation of international law	p. 69
The limits of constitutionalisation	p. 73
Cosmopolitanism and humanitarian military intervention: war, peace and human rights	p. 78
Dealing with ambivalence	p. 82
Debasing the coinage	p. 90
Law and judgement	p. 93
Cosmopolitanism and punishment: prosecuting crimes against humanity	p. 96
Arendt and Jaspers: Nuremberg	p. 97
Arendt and Jaspers: the Eichmann trial	p. 101
Strategies of denial	p. 104
Cosmopolitanism and Holocaust uniqueness	p. 111
Cosmopolitanism and the life of the mind: the critique of nihilism	p. 115
The equivocations of thinking	p. 118
The equivocations of willing	p. 122
Judgement and understanding	p. 125
Nihilism and cosmopolitanism	p. 130
Conclusion: the elements of a cosmopolitan social theory	p. 133
Bibliography	p. 155
Index	p. 171
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