Taking the 'Ism' Out of Cosmopolitanism

An Essay in Reconstruction

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2397630
AutoresRobert Fine (University of Warwick, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume6
Fascículo4
Páginas451-470
Data de publicação2003-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/13684310030064005
OpenAlexW2162740781
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas53
Referências citadas40

This article addresses the character and potential of the radical cosmopolitanism that is currently flourishing within the social sciences. I explore how cosmopolitanism is articulated in a number of disciplines-including international law, international relations, sociology and political philosophy-and how it conceives of its own age. I focus first of all on the timeconsciousness that informs the cosmopolitan representation of modernity, in particular its projection of a rupturebetween the old 'Westphalian' order of nation states and the advancing cosmopolitan order of the present, and, second, on the nature of cosmopolitan critiques of nationalism, socialism and 'modernist' social and political thought in general. Behind this focus lie a question over the extent to which cosmopolitanism replicates in its own normative proposals the defects of that which it criticizes, and another question over the means by which the critical kernel of contemporary cosmopolitanism can be separated from its doctrinal shell

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