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This book, which draws from contributions from north and south, east and west, center and periphery, powerfully reveals the change that the cosmopolitan idea has undergone when globalization, with its dominations, liberations, transportations, inequalities, and hybridities, made it eventually a historical reality. `New' cosmopolitanism is more intense, diverse, conflictual, ambivalent than the `old,' but also more directly involved in the shaping of our common future--for better or worse. Cautiously, but distinctively, the voices heard in this most timely book speak for the better. -Etienne Balibar,author of Equaliberty Cosmopolitanisms, excavates the history of the concept and speculates about its future.... An impressive gamut of contributors represent the major disciplines of the humanities, reflecting the seduction of cosmopolitanism within contemporary theory over the past few decades. -Times Higher Education This edited volume reignites many of the incessant debates on cosmopolitanism, its origin, development, and raison d'etre, not only from difference disciplinary traditions and `world views' but also from different points in time. . . . The vibrancy of the field is shown by the list of influential critics in this volume, who do not take the notion of cosmopolitanism for granted but engage with it from positions that are both critical and creative. -boundary2

This book, which draws from contributions from north and south, east and west, center and periphery, powerfully reveals the change that the cosmopolitan idea has undergone when globalization, with its dominations, liberations, transportations, inequalities, and hybridities, made it eventually a historical reality. `New' cosmopolitanism is more intense, diverse, conflictual, ambivalent than the `old,' but also more directly involved in the shaping of our common future--for better or worse. Cautiously, but distinctively, the voices heard in this most timely book speak for the better. -Etienne Balibar,author of Equaliberty Cosmopolitanisms, excavates the history of the concept and speculates about its future.... An impressive gamut of contributors represent the major disciplines of the humanities, reflecting the seduction of cosmopolitanism within contemporary theory over the past few decades. -Times Higher Education

This edited volume reignites many of the incessant debates on cosmopolitanism, its origin, development, andraison detre, not only from difference disciplinary traditions and & world views but also from different points in time. . . . The vibrancy of the field is shown by the list of influential critics in this volume, who do not take the notion of cosmopolitanism for granted but engage with it from positions that are both critical and creative. * boundary2 *

"""This edited volume reignites many of the incessant debates on cosmopolitanism, its origin, development, andraison dêtre, not only from difference disciplinary traditions and & world views but also from different points in time. . . . The vibrancy of the field is shown by the list of influential critics in this volume, who do not take the notion of cosmopolitanism for granted but engage with it from positions that are both critical and creative."" * boundary2 *"

This book, which draws from contributions from north and south, east and west, center and periphery, powerfully reveals the change that the cosmopolitan idea has undergone when globalization, with its dominations, liberations, transportations, inequalities, and hybridities, made it eventually a historical reality. 'New' cosmopolitanism is more intense, diverse, conflictual, ambivalent than the 'old,' but also more directly involved in the shaping of our common future--for better or worse. Cautiously, but distinctively, the voices heard in this most timely book speak for the better. -Etienne Balibar,author of Equaliberty

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Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the editor of Cosmopolites and the author of Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Inequality. Paulo Lemos Horta is Associate Professor of Literature at NYU Abu Dhabi. A writer, translator, and literary historian, his writing has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights. Kwame Anthony Appiah, who has been president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy, The Honor Code, and the prize-winning Cosmopolitanism. Raised in Ghana and educated in England, he has taught philosophy on three continents and is currently Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. Professor Appiah writes the “Ethicist” column in the New York Times Magazine.

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