Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Post-Foundational Cosmopolitanism / Edition 1

by Tamara Caraus, Elena Paris

Overview

Leading experts and rising stars in the field explore whether cosmopolitanism becomes impossible in the theoretical framework that assumed the absence of a final ground. The questions that the volume addresses refer exactly to the foundational predicament that characterizes cosmopolitanism: How is it possible to think cosmopolitanism after the critique of foundations? Can cosmopolitanism be conceived without an ‘ultimate’ ground? Can we construct theories of cosmopolitanism without some certainties about the entire world or about the cosmos? Should we continue to look for foundations of cosmopolitan rights, norms and values? Alternatively, should we aim towards cosmopolitanism without foundations or towards cosmopolitanism with ‘contingent foundations’? Could cosmopolitanism be the very attempt to come to terms with the failure of ultimate grounds?

Written accessibly and contributing to key debates on political philosophy, and social and political thought, this volume advances the concept of post-foundational cosmopolitanism by bridging the polarised approaches to the concept.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138913349
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/2015
Series:	Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tamara Caraus is researcher at New Europe College, Bucharest. Her area of research includes cosmopolitanism, continental political theory, theories of agonistic democracy, and dissidence.

Elena Paris is a doctoral candidate and researcher at the Law School, University of Bucharest. Her research interests include international legal theory, cosmopolitanism, critical human rights, constitutionalism, collective security, financial law.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Introduction Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Post-Foundational Cosmopolitanism Tamara Caraus Part I: Grounds 1. Cosmopolitanism Without Bannisters: Agonism, Humanism, and World Disclosure Mark Wenman 2. Seeing Humanity Anew: Grammatically Reading Liberal Cosmopolitanism Véronique Pin-Fat 3. Re-thinking Universalism: Post – Foundational Cosmopolitanism in a Relational Key Elena Paris 4. Contingency and Contestability: Questioning Cosmopolitan Foundations Camil Alexandru Pârvu Part II: Ontology 5. Cosmopolitan Ontology or the Cosmo-Political Tamara Caraus 6. The Kosmos of Cosmopolitanism: Geography and Grounding Péter D. Szigeti 7. Spinoza – Cosmopolitanism for the Love of Multitudes Stephen Connelly 8. "Ontology of the present" and Critical Attitude of Thinking: A Foucauldian Proposal of a Post-Foundational Cosmopolitanism Alessio Calabresse Part III : Politics 9. The Political, the Ethical, the Global: Towards a Post-Foundational Theory of Cosmopolitan Democracy Oliver Marchart 10. Cosmopolitan Pedagogies and The Possibility of a Democratic Cosmopolitics Samuel Chambers 11. The "Foundations" of Political Cosmopolitanism Kostas Koukouzelis 12. How to Interrupt Happy Nationalism: From Butler’s Performativity to Radical Cosmopolitanism Bogdan Popa

Editorial Reviews

"This volume explores in an illuminating fashion the question of whether cosmopolitanism always has to succumb to the "temptation of foundations" or whether it can be figured in a way that it becomes a continual challenge to all attempts to anchor political life to a timeless, universal mooring."—Stephen White, James Hart Professor of Politics, University of Virginia

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