Ideas to Die for: The Cosmopolitan Challenge

by Giles Gunn

Book Overview

Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms - religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often used to support the claim that cosmopolitanism is impotent to resist such totalizing ideologies because it is either a Western conceit or a globalist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415813883
• ISBN13: 9780415813884
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"