Cosmopolitanism in Hard Times - Cicchelli, Vincenzo; Mesure, Sylvie (Leiden/Boston : BRILL, 2020)
This reference book provides the reader with an exhaustive array of epistemological, theoretical, and empirical explorations related to the field of cosmopolitanism studies. It considers the cosmopolitan perspective rather as a relevant approach to the understand- ing of some major issues related to globalization than as a subfield of global studies. In this unique contribution to conceptualizing, establishing, experiencing, and challenging cos- mopolitanism, each chapter seizes the paradoxical dialectic of opening up and closing up, of enlightenment and counter-enlightenment, of hope and despair at work in the global world, while the volume as a whole insists on the moral, intellectual, structural, and his- torical resources that still make cosmopolitanism a real possibility — and not just wishful thinking — even in these hard times".
DOI: 10.1163/9789004438026
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