Cosmopolitanisms - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bruce Robbins (Editor), Paulo Lemos Horta (Editor), Kwame Anthony Appiah (Afterword by)Publish date:2017-07-18Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479863235ISBN-10:1479863238UPC:9781479863235Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC9324W1KP
Cosmopolitanisms
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479863235ISBN-10:1479863238UPC:9781479863235Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC9324W1KP
Robbins, Bruce: - 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.Appiah, Kwame Anthony: - Kwame Anthony Appiah, who has been president of the PEN American Center, is the author of The Ethics of Identity, Thinking It Through: An...
Publisher: New York University Press
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