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Cosmopolitanism, which has recently become a matter of great scholarly interest, is an ethical and political theory that envisions all human beings as citizens in a single community.
Eli Vinokur
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Cosmopolitan Identity Formation and Consumer Culture: A Study of Ndibe’s Foreign Gods, Inc.
The dream of a cosmopolitan utopia and the idea of being locally situated yet globally connected has never seemed more plausible than today. Globality has made the vast supermarket of goods, home decor and exotic items locally available to consumers ...
Nishtha Pandey
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This paper deals with a critique of the concept of cosmopolitanism. It argues that the ‘old’ concept of cosmopolitanism is a trope of Western, enlightened and secular universalism. As such, it was part of Western imperialism. It is not always recognized as such by postcolonial studies that celebrate hybridity and multicultural creativity.
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Special Issue on Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, and Migration: Ethics of Inclusion and Exclusion
The contributors to this issue offer applied critical and normative perspectives on central, yet overlooked, ethical aspects of migration management with a certain cosmopolitan lance in some capacity.
Yusuf Yuksekdag, Elin Palm
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Animal Polis, or, Why Ethics Cannot Rule Politics
Preview: /Review: Martha Nussbaum, The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), 310 pages./ For decades Martha Nussbaum allied herself whole-heartedly with cosmopolitanism. No longer.
John R. Shook
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Constructing a Desirable Theory of Chinese Cosmopolitanism: The Difficulties and a Solution
Facing the challenge of de-globalization, the cosmopolitan actions of China need to be grounded in a systematic theory. However, the Chinese theory of cosmopolitanism encounters two main difficulties.
Qiuqi Li
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Peace and cosmopolitan Europe: “varietas delectat”
The aim of this paper is to elucidate the character of european cosmopolitanism under the aegis of varietas delectat. The analysis bears particularly on the relational and interactive character of cosmopolitanism and its procedural, post-metaphysical ...
Acílio da Silva Estanqueiro Rocha
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The social, cosmopolitanism and beyond [PDF]
First, this article will outline the metaphysics of ‘the social’ that implicitly and explicitly connects the work of lassical and contemporary cosmopolitan sociologists as different as Durkheim, Weber, Beck and Luhmann. In a second step, I will show that
Schillmeier, Michael
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Functional morphology of the pharyngeal teeth of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola
Abstract Many fish use a set of pharyngeal jaws in their throat to aid in prey capture and processing, particularly of large or complex prey. In this study—combining dissection, CT scanning, histology, and performance testing—we demonstrate a novel use of pharyngeal teeth in the ocean sunfish (Mola mola), a species for which pharyngeal jaw anatomy had ...
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