Harvey Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-231-51991-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: The Wellek Library Lectures

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harvey, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Transzendentalphilosophie, Kritizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Prologue
Part One: Universal Values
1. Kant's Anthropology and Geography
2. The Postcolonial Critique of Liberal Cosmopolitanism
3. The Flat World of Neoliberal Utopianism
4. The New Cosmopolitans
5. The Banality of Geographical Evils
Part Two: Geographical Knowledges
6. Geographical Reason
7. Spacetime and the World
8. Places, Regions, Territories
9. The Nature of Environment
Epilogue: Geographical Theory and the Ruses of Geographical Reason
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Harvey is considered to be one of the world's leading geographers and social theorists. Currently director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, he previously held professorial positions at Johns Hopkins University and Oxford University. He is the author of fifteen books, ranging from studies in political economy and cultural change to works on urbanization, uneven geographical development, imperialism, and neoliberalism. His works are translated into more than a dozen languages, including Arabic and Chinese.