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Cosmopolitanism
Author(s): Dipesh Chakrabarty (Editor), Homi K. Bhabha (Editor), Sheldon Pollock (Editor), Carol A. Breckenridge (Editor)
- Publisher: Duke University Press Books
- Publication Date: 10 May 2002
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 260 pages
- ISBN-10: 0822328844
- ISBN-13: 9780822328841
Book Description
By examining new archives, proposing new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new possibilities of political practice, the contributors critically probe the concept of cosmopolitanism. On the one hand, cosmopolitanism may be taken to promise a form of supraregional political solidarity, but on the other, these essays argue, it may erode precisely those intimate cultural differences that derive their meaning from particular places and traditions. Given that most cosmopolitan political formations—from the Roman empire and European imperialism to contemporary globalization—have been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and egalitarian cosmopolitan politics? Finally, the volume asks whether cosmopolitanism can promise any universalism that is not the unwarranted generalization of some Western particular.
Contributors. Ackbar Abbas, Arjun Appadurai, Homi K. Bhabha, T. K. Biaya, Carol A. Breckenridge, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ousame Ndiaye Dago, Mamadou Diouf, Wu Hung, Walter D. Mignolo, Sheldon Pollock, Steven Randall
Editorial Reviews
Review
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–Eric Gable, “Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History”
“[I]mpressive. All the chapters are interesting and provocative on their own terms and geographers can learn much from it. . . .”
–Tim Cresswell,” Gender, Place, and Culture”
“[I]nteresting. . . . [D]azzling. . . . [I]nsightful. . . .”
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–Bruce Robbins, “The Journal of Asian Studies”
“[T]he contributors provide a provocation, challenging scholars to integrate cosmopolitanism into social theory and critical practice.”
–Stephen William Foster, “American Ethnologist”
“[W]ith certain cosmopolitan expectations, one should be able to find much of theoretical, empirical, and methodological value.”
–Sherwin Mendoza, “Politics and Culture”
About the Author
Carol A. Breckenridge teaches at the in the department of South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago and is the founding editor of Public Culture.
Sheldon Pollock is George V. Bobrinskoy Professor of Sanskrit and Indic Studies at the University of Chicago.
Homi K. Bhabha is Professor of English and African-American Studies at Harvard University.
Dipesh Chakrabarty teaches in the departments of history and South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago.
Sheldon Pollock is the The William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and
Indian Studies in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and
Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of
The language of the gods in the world of men : Sanskrit,
culture, and power in premodern India (2006) and editor of a number
of books, including LITERARY CULTURES IN HISTORY: RECONSTRUCTIONS
FROM SOUTH ASIA (2003) and (w/Homi Bhabha, Carol Breckenridge, and
Dipesh Chakrabarty) COSMOPOLITANISM (Duke, 2002).
