Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress: 5 (Cultural Front) - Softcover

Robbins, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814775144 ISBN 13: 9780814775141

Verlag: New York University Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Robbins Bruce

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Reseña del editor:

Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization. Building on his previous work, Robbins here takes up the question of the status of international human rights. Robbins' conception of internationalism is driven not only by the imperatives of global human rights policy, but by an understanding of transnational cultures, thus linking practical policymaking to cultural politics at the expense of neither. Robbins' cultural criticism, in other words, affords us much more than an understanding of how culture "shapes our lives." Instead, Robbins shows, particularly in his discussions of Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty, Susan Sontag, Michael Walzer and others, how "culture" itself has become a term that blocks-for commentators on both the right and the left-serious engagement with the contemporary cosmopolitan ideal of a nonuniversalist discourse of human rights. Rescuing "cosmopolitanism" itself from its connotations of leisured individuals loyal to no one and willing to sample all cultures at will, Feeling Global presents a compelling way to think about the ethical obligations of intellectuals at a time when their place in the new world order is profoundly uncertain.

Biografía del autor:

Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the editor of Cosmopolites and the author of Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Inequality.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: New York University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0814775144
• ISBN 13: 9780814775141
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
• Herausgeber: Seltzer Robert, Cohen Norman S.