Thinking Differently About Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Eccentricity, and the Globalized World

✍ Scribed by Marianna Papastephanou

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 272
• Series: Interventions: Education, Philosophy, and Culture
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cosmopolitanism and relevant notions are widely discussed in philosophy of education and educational studies more generally. There is a vast literature on the topic that often invites conceptual discussion and requires some work in the direction of crucial clarifications. Thinking Differently About Cosmopolitanism argues that a new conception of cosmopolitanism is needed and addresses this need by formulating a conception of cosmopolitanism as an "eccentric" ethico-political ideal. Such cosmopolitanism is eccentric in the sense that it decenters the self, it cultivates centrifugal virtues, and it questions the concern for the globally enriched self. In this book, Papastephanou lays the foundation for a more refined conception of the topic, and provides a fruitful interdisciplinary discussion of its relation to globalization, Eurocentricism, developmentalism, and modernity.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Setting Up the New Cosmopolitanism
2. Eccentric Cosmopolitanism and a Globalized World
3. A Critique of Globalist Positions
4. Identity-versus-Difference Dilemmas
5. Home, Homelessness, and the Cosmopolitan Self
6. Who’s Cosmopolitan?
7. Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism as Boundary Discourses
8. The Importance of Conceptual Reconsiderations
9. Revisiting Patriotism
10. Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Justice
11. Reflections on an All-Encompassing Conception of Cosmopolitanism
Conclusion
References
About the Author