1st Edition

Contestatory Cosmopolitanism

Edited By Tom Bailey Copyright 2017
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

Contemporary global politics poses urgent challenges – from humanitarian, migratory and environmental problems to economic, religious and military conflicts – that strain not only existing political systems and resources, but also the frameworks and concepts of political thinking. The standard cosmopolitan response is to invoke a sense of global community, governed by such principles as human... Read more

Introduction Tom Bailey

1. Cosmopolitanism and the Modern Revolutionary Tradition: Reflections on Arendt’s Politics Robert Fine

2. National Sovereigntism and Global Constitutionalism: An Adornian Cosmopolitan Critique Lars Rensmann

3. A Brief Sketch of the Possibility of a Hegelian Cosmopolitanism David Edward Rose

4. Overcoming Statism from Within: The International Criminal Court and the Westphalian System Kevin W. Gray and Kafumu Kalyalya

5. Cosmopolitanism From Below: Universalism as Contestation James D. Ingram

6. Farewell to Teleology: Reflections on Camus and a Rebellious Cosmopolitanism without Hope Patrick Hayden

7. Towards an Agonistic Cosmopolitanism: Exploring the Cosmopolitan Potential of Chantal Mouffe’s Agonism Tamara Caraus

8. Citizens and Strangers: Cosmopolitanism as an Empty Universal John Rundell

9. From Self-Legislation to Self-Determination: Democracy and the New Circumstances of Global Politics James Bohman

10. Law and (Global) Order: Towards a Theory of Cosmopolitan Policing William Smith

Biography

Tom Bailey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. He works on modern and contemporary ethics and political philosophy. He has published essays on Kant and Nietzsche, and edited Nietzsche and Kantian Ethics (with J Constâncio, London: Bloomsbury, 2017),  Rawls and Religion (with V. Gentile, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015) and Deprovincializing Habermas: Global Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2013).