At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now

by Timothy Brennan

Book Overview

From every quarter we hear of a new global culture, postcolonial, hybrid, announcing the death of nationalism, the arrival of cosmopolitanism. But under the drumbeat attending this trend, Timothy Brennan detects another, altogether different sound. Polemical, passionate, certain to provoke, his book exposes the drama being played out under the guise of globalism. A bracing critique of the critical self-indulgence that calls itself cosmopolitanism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674050312
• ISBN13: 9780674050310
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 369 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"