Chouliaraki, Lilie 
ORCID: 0000-0002-5683-4691
(2013)
Cosmopolitanism as irony: a critique of post-humanitarianism.
In: Rosi, Braidotti, Patrick, Hanafin and Bolette, Blaagaard, (eds.)
After Cosmopolitanism.
Routledge, London, UK, pp. 77-96.
ISBN 9780415627214
Abstract
At a time when social and political reality seems to move away from the practice of cosmopolitanism, whilst being in serious need of a new international framework to regulate global interaction, what are the new definitions and practices of cosmopolitanism? Including contributions from leading figures across the humanities and social sciences, After Cosmopolitanism takes up this question as its central challenge. Its core argument is the idea that our globalised condition forms the heart of contemporary cosmopolitan claims, which do not refer to a transcendental ideal, but are rather immanent to the material conditions of global interdependence. But to what extent do emerging definitions of cosmopolitanism contribute to new representative democratic models of governance? The present volume argues that a radical transformation of cosmopolitanism is already ongoing and that more effort is needed to take stock of transformations which are both necessary and possible. To this end, After Cosmopolitanism calls for an understanding of cosmopolitanism that is more attentive to the material reality of our social and political situation and less focused on linguistic analyses of its metaphorical implications. It is the call for a cosmopolitanism that is also a cosmopolitics.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Official URL: | http://www.routledge.com/books/details/97804156238... |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Routledge |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2014 16:08 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 17:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/57220 |
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