Robbins Perpetual War

Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9518-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Arguing that intellectuals must critique bellicose U.S. nationalism, Bruce Robbins advocates cosmopolitanism in its traditional sense, as an elevation of loyalty to the good of humanity as a whole over loyalty to one's own nation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robbins, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. Cosmopolitanism, New and Newer: Anthony Appiah 31

2. Noam Chomsky's Golden Rule 47

3. Blaming the System: Immanuel Wallerstein 67

4. The Sweatshop Sublime 93

5. Edward Said and Effort 115

6. Intellectuals in Public, or Elsewhere 137

7. War Without Belief: Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club 157

8. Comparative National Blaming: W. G. Sebald and the Bombing of Germany 173

Notes 191

Bibliography 221

Index 231

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Robbins is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State and Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, and a coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation and Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture, also published by Duke University Press.