Cosmopolitanism and the Evils of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmopolitanism and the Evils of the World write by Michael H. DeArmey. This book was released on 2020-05-28. Cosmopolitanism and the Evils of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses five forms of transnational evils and offers cosmopolitan recommendations for reducing their occurrence. With civilisation in crisis it is crucial, now more than ever, to attempt to mitigate the catastrophes that face us in the decades to come. In a compelling and frightening account of transnational evil, DeArmey identifies and explores in depth the dark side of human behaviour, from genocide, slavery, torture and terrorism, to the greatest disaster of our time: the worldwide destruction of the earth’s biosphere. Building on Kant’s theory of a new world organisation designed to eliminate the evil of war and strengthen the world community, DeArmey develops a biotic and value-based theory of dignity, reconstructing a cosmopolitan world order that supports the Kantian theories of respect, care and hospitality. Cosmopolitan changes to the United Nations are proposed, including a bicameral assembly and, crucially, an environmental council with legal powers. In each chapter, cosmopolitan recommendations are made that will reduce the occurrence of the transnational evil in question; it is through these recommendations that the dignity and world citizenship of humanity can be protected and strengthened. Without them, we are headed towards the collapse of civilisation and mass extinction in the biosphere.
Citizen of the World
Citizen of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Citizen of the World write by Peter Kemp. This book was released on 2011. Citizen of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this overview of the cosmopolitan ideal, philosopher Peter Kemp argues that in the twenty-first century cosmopolitanism is the only viable guiding ideal for politics and education in an increasingly interdependent world.
Ideas to Die For
Ideas to Die For - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ideas to Die For write by Giles Gunn. This book was released on 2013-04-12. Ideas to Die For available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often used to support the claim that cosmopolitanism is impotent to resist such totalizing ideologies because it is either a Western conceit or a globalist fiction, Gunn argues that cosmopolitanism is neither. Situating his discussion in an emphatically global context, Gunn shows how cosmopolitanism has been effective in resisting such essentialisms and authoritarianisms precisely because it is more pragmatic than prescriptive, more self-critical than self-interested and finds several of its foremost recent expressions in the work of an Indian philosopher, a Palestinian writer, and South African story-tellers. This kind of cosmopolitanism offers a genuine ethical alternative to the politics of dogmatism and extremism because it is grounded on a new delineation of the human and opens toward a new, indeed, an "other," humanism.
Cosmopolitanisms
Cosmopolitanisms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmopolitanisms write by Kwame Anthony Appiah. This book was released on 2017-07-18. Cosmopolitanisms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world. "Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a “kosmo-polites,” or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one’s place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of membership in some larger, more compelling collective. Cosmopolitanisms works from the premise that there is more than one kind of cosmopolitanism, a plurality that insists cosmopolitanism can no longer stand as a single ideal against which all smaller loyalties and forms of belonging are judged. Rather, cosmopolitanism can be defined as one of many possible modes of life, thought, and sensibility that are produced when commitments and loyalties are multiple and overlapping. Featuring essays by major thinkers, including Homi Bhabha, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Thomas Bender, Leela Gandhi, Ato Quayson, and David Hollinger, among others, this collection asks what these plural cosmopolitanisms have in common, and how the cosmopolitanisms of the underprivileged might serve the ethical values and political causes that matter to their members. In addition to exploring the philosophy of Kant and the space of the city, this volume focuses on global justice, which asks what cosmopolitanism is good for, and on the global south, which has often been assumed to be an object of cosmopolitan scrutiny, not itself a source or origin of cosmopolitanism. This book gives a new meaning to belonging and its ground-breaking arguments call for deep and necessary discussion and discourse.
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) write by Kwame Anthony Appiah. This book was released on 2010-03-01. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age.”—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Drawing on a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, and philosophy—as well as the author's own experience of life on three continents—Cosmopolitanism is a moral manifesto for a planet we share with more than six billion strangers.
