Toward a Cosmopolitical Democracy

Process over Ends

Bibliographic Data

ID13040883
AuthorsRebecca Lea McCarthy (Kaplan (United States), corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume2
Issue2
Publication date2011-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of International and Global Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-0669 • E-ISSN: 2158-0669
PublisherLindenwood University (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.62608/2158-0669.1047
OpenAlexW2901357503
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

“Towards a Cosmopolitical Democracy” argues that in order for cosmopolitanism to effectively challenge destructive forms of nationalism, misguided universalism, and economic globalism, it must be rearticulated conceptually and philosophically for today’s world as a cosmopolitical process rather than a set ideal or vision. This cosmopolitical process is best promoted in the realm of rhetoric and praxis, where everyday practices and values between self and collective interest are navigated using a Bakhtinian understanding of the dialogic imagination, as well as a “double process” of negotiation between the universal and the particular, both cognitively (Burke, 1970) and across cultures (Tarrow, 2005)

Aesthetics · Contingency · Cosmopolitanism · Democracy · Dialogic · Epistemology · Globalism · Ideal (ethics · Nationalism · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Praxis · Process (computing · Realm · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Universalism · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies