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The cosmopolitanism of the sacred
2015This chapter argues that cosmopolitanism must have some basic notions of both the cultural distinctiveness of different societies and the unity of human kind. It explains the fact that cosmopolitanism is neither new nor necessarily seculara and discusses the uneven development of cosmopolitanism over time; there is no steady and certain progression ...
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2008
Sociology was born as an attempt to delimit an object of investigation offered by society as a social reality. The ambition was that of “treating the social facts as things” (Durkheim) or of understanding and explaining the social relations by respecting an “axiological neutrality” (Max Weber).
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Sociology was born as an attempt to delimit an object of investigation offered by society as a social reality. The ambition was that of “treating the social facts as things” (Durkheim) or of understanding and explaining the social relations by respecting an “axiological neutrality” (Max Weber).
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2009
This paper considers to what extent contemporary discourses on cosmopolitanism might contribute to the reading of Byron as an expatriate poet, and, more generally, to a concept of Romantic cosmopolitanism. A close reading of the "Haidee episode" in cantos 2 to 4 of Byron's Don Juan (1819-1824) focuses on languages-in-contact, foreign-language ...
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This paper considers to what extent contemporary discourses on cosmopolitanism might contribute to the reading of Byron as an expatriate poet, and, more generally, to a concept of Romantic cosmopolitanism. A close reading of the "Haidee episode" in cantos 2 to 4 of Byron's Don Juan (1819-1824) focuses on languages-in-contact, foreign-language ...
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Cosmopolitan Extraterritoriality
2019This chapter argues that extraterritoriality (ET) is an important idea and practice in the contemporary world that can be a possible site of state cosmopolitan responsibility. However, it also contains a serious potential for interstate domination and the assertion of national rather than cosmopolitan interests.
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The cosmopolitan imagination: critical cosmopolitanism and social theory
The British Journal of Sociology, 2006AbstractCritical cosmopolitanism is an emerging direction in social theory and reflects both an object of study and a distinctive methodological approach to the social world. It differs from normative political and moral accounts of cosmopolitanism as world polity or universalistic culture in its conception of cosmopolitanism as socially situated and ...
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2019
This chapter demonstrates that, while scholars have long focused on the economic origins of the middle class, it is crucial to understand the ways in which it fashioned itself. Although the universe of the Indian middle class revolved around contesting colonial categories, the chapter shows that the project of self-fashioning of the Indian middle class
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This chapter demonstrates that, while scholars have long focused on the economic origins of the middle class, it is crucial to understand the ways in which it fashioned itself. Although the universe of the Indian middle class revolved around contesting colonial categories, the chapter shows that the project of self-fashioning of the Indian middle class
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Deaf cosmopolitanism: calibrating as a moral process
International Journal of Multilingualism, 2021Annelies Maria Jozef Kusters +1 more
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