Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason: Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship

Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason: Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship
ISBN-10
3034308981
ISBN-13
9783034308984
Category
Cosmopolitanism
Language
English
Published
2014
Publisher
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Authors
Rebecka Lettevall, Kristian Petrov

Description

This book's critical approach addresses the anachronism, essentialism and ethnocentrism that underlie contemporary theoretical and methodological uses of the term «cosmopolitanism». It explores the concept of cosmopolitan reason from the viewpoints of comparative literature, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, postcolonialism and moral philosophy.

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