Kathleen Glenister Roberts

The Limits of Cosmopolis

Ethics and Provinciality in the Dialogue of Cultures

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is concerned with cosmopolitanism - a privileged notion of «world citizenship» - and whether or not a cosmopolitan position is conducive to human flourishing when its preoccupation is aesthetic.
The Limits of Cosmopolis addresses the question of how human life is organized: Is it possible to be a «citizen of the world»? Is there a difference between avowing that identity for oneself and morally and ethically making a commitment to others? What are the implications for communication - for a real dialogue of cultures?
Because the identity claim to cosmopolitanism brings particular challenges to intercultural dialogue, the author argues that alternative routes to transnational human rights - to moral and ethical commitment and communication - are crucial. This book is interested in those alternative routes, in a more just organization of human life. It considers the ways in which a «cosmopolitan identity» may exacerbate intercultural conflicts rather than alleviating them as well as exploring its implications for intercultural interactions.

Produktdetails

• Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 16
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 312192
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781433121920
• ISBN-10: 1433121921
• Artikelnr.: 40833845

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Glenister Roberts (PhD, Indiana University-Bloomington) is Director of the Honors College at Duquesne University and was Director of the Communication Ethics Institute from 2004 to 2006. She is the author of Alterity & Narrative (2007), which won the International/Intercultural Communication Book of the Year Award from the National Communication Association, and co-editor of Communication Ethics: Between Cosmopolitanism and Provinciality (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Cosmopolitanism and Its Counterfeits - Globalization, Not Cosmopolitanism - Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Bias - Cosmopolitanism's Threats to Dialogue - The Finite and the Infinite - Against Cosmopolitanism: A Case Study in Solidarity Through Difference - The Limits of Cosmopolis.