Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Rethinking Politics in the Age of Brexit and Trump

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Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents
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Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Rethinking Politics in the Ageof Brexit and Trump
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Introduction
Part I: Foreshadowing of the Cosmopolitanism Debate before Kant
Chapter 1
Cicero between Cosmopolis and Republic
Notes
References
Chapter 2
Johannes Althusius’s Cosmopolitan Defense of Local Politics
Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire
Fellowship and Covenant: The Making of a People in Althusius
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3
Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Jewish Political Thought
The Study of Nature and Cosmopolitanism
The Jews and Cosmopolitanism
Trade and Cosmopolitanism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 4
Rousseau’s Paradoxical Cosmopolitan Anti-Cosmopolitanism
Rousseau’s Cosmopolitanism
Rousseau’s Anti-cosmopolitanism
Notes
References
Part II: Kant’s Cosmopolitanism and Its Critics
Chapter 5
A Cosmopolitanism that Populists Could Love
The Value of Republican Self-Government
The People’s Honor
Immigration, Political Autonomy, and the Rule of Law
Abbreviations
Notes
References
Chapter 6
Citizen Marx
Marx’s Critique of Capitalist Cosmopolitanism
Marx’s Praise for Proletarian Internationalism
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 7
Nietzsche’s Good Europeans
Universality and Hospitality
Good Europeans
Beyond Inheritance
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
References
Chapter 8
Global Enframing, Authentic History, Dasein
A Time of Crossing
The Poet as Founder-Guardian
Gods, Ancient, and Modern
A Modern Destiny? Philosophy, Enframing, and Machenschaft
In Search for “Roots”: Singing the Authenticity of Da-sein
Notes
References
Part III: Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Politics and Economics
Chapter 9
John Rawls against the Clash of Civilizations
The Major Flaws of an Important Book
Rawls’ Contribution
Western Ethnocentrism
Various Sources of Individualistic Resistance
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 10
Glocalism and Democracy in James Tully’s Critique of Cosmopolitanism and Imperialism
Democracy as Public Philosophy
Kant’s Cosmopolitan-Imperial Legacy
The EU as an Alternative to Cosmopolitan Imperialism
Glocalism as Alternative to Cosmopolitanism
Conclusion: From Seattle to Porto Allegre
Notes
References
Chapter 11
Rethinking the Democratic Boundary Problem
What Is the Question?
What Are the Answers?
Which Answers Work?
Notes
References
Part IV: Populism, Nationalism, and Democratic Citizenship
Chapter 12
“Forced to be Free”
Laicité as a Political Principle
Disparate Treatment vs. Disparate Impact
Laicité as a Religious Principle
Laicité and Public Identity
The Ban on the Hijab
Nationalism and the Rejection of Cosmopolitanism
Notes
References
Chapter 13
Demos or No Demos?
Citizenship and Its Four Dimensions
EU Citizenship and Democracy: Elements, Particularities, and Flaws
Does the EU Need a Demos and an Identity?
The Chicken and Egg Question of Demos Building
What Is European Identity?
Empirical Findings
Citizenship and Democracy in the EU: Conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 14
A Decline in Democratic Say?
JAMES ALLAN
PIERRE MANENT
CONCLUSIONS
Notes
References
Index
List of Contributors