Ingram Radical Cosmopolitics

The Ethics and Politics of Democratic Universalism
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53641-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

While supporting the cosmopolitan pursuit of a world that respects all rights and interests, James D. Ingram believes political theorists have, in their approach to this project, compromised its egalitarian and emancipatory principles. Focusing on recent debates without losing sight of cosmopolitanism's ancient and Enlightenment roots, Ingram confronts the philosophical difficulties of defending universal ideals and the implications for ethics and political theory.

In morality as in politics, theorists have generally focused first on discovering universal values and second on their implementation. Ingram argues that only by prioritizing the development and articulation of universal values through political action in the fight for freedom and equality can theorists do justice to these efforts and cosmopolitanism's universal vocation. Only by proceeding from the local to the global, from the bottom up rather than from the top down, on the basis of political practice rather than moral ideals, can we salvage moral and political universalism. In this book, Ingram provides the clearest, most systematic account yet of this schematic reversal and its radical possibilities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingram, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Cosmopolitanism from the Top Down
1. Universalism in History
2. Cosmopolitanism in Ethics: Tensions of the Universal
3. Cosmopolitism in Politics: Realizing the Universal
Part 2. Cosmopolitics from the Bottom Up
4. Rethinking Ethical Cosmopolitanism: From Universalism to Universalization
5. Rethinking Political Cosmopolitanism: From Democracy to Democratization
6. The Politics of Human Rights
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

James D. Ingram teaches political theory at McMaster University.