Re-grounding Cosmopolitanism
Leading experts and rising stars in the field explore whether cosmopolitanism becomes impossible in the theoretical framework that assumed the absence of a final ground. The questions that the volume addresses refer exactly to the foundational predicament that characterizes cosmopolitanism: How is it possible to think about cosmopolitanism after the critique of foundations? Can cosmopolitanism be conceived without an ultimate ground? Can we construct theories of cosmopolitanism without some certainties about the entire world or about the cosmos? Should we continue to look for foundations of cosmopolitan rights, norms and values? Alternatively, should we aim towards cosmopolitanism without foundations or towards cosmopolitanism with contingent foundations? Could cosmopolitanism be the very attempt to come to terms with the failure of ultimate grounds?
Written accessibly and contributing to key debates on political philosophy, and social and political thought, this volume advances the concept of post-foundational cosmopolitanism by bridging the polarized approaches to the concept.
Tamara Caraus is a researcher at New Europe College, Bucharest. Her area of research includes cosmopolitanism, continental political theory, theories of agonistic democracy, and dissidence.
Elena Paris is a doctoral candidate and researcher at the Law School, University of Bucharest. Her research interests include international legal theory, cosmopolitanism, critical human rights, constitutionalism, collective security, and financial law.
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Hayekian Liberalism as a Research Programme
Jeremy Shearmur
2 Conflicts in Social Science
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3 Political Thought of Andr Gorz
Adrian Little
4 Corruption, Capitalism and Democracy
John Girling
5 Freedom and Culture in Western Society
Hans Blokland
6 Freedom in Economics
New Perspectives in Normative Analysis
Edited by Jean-Francois Laslier, Marc Fleurbaey, Nicolas Gravel and Alain Trannoy
7 Against Politics
On Government, Anarchy and Order
Anthony de Jasay
8 Max Weber and Michel Foucault
Parallel Life Works
Arpad Szakolczai
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G.B. Madison
10 On Durkheims Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Edited by W. S. F. Pickering, W. Watts Miller and N.J. Allen
11 Classical Individualism
The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being
Tibor R. Machan
12 The Age of Reasons
Quixotism, Sentimentalism and Political Economy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Wendy Motooka
13 Individualism in Modern Thought
From Adam Smith to Hayek
Lorenzo Infantino
14 Property and Power in Social Theory
A Study in Intellectual Rivalry
Dick Pels
15 Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory
A Critique of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar
Nigel Pleasants
16 Marxism and Human Nature
Sean Sayers
17 Goffman and Social Organization
Studies in a Sociological Legacy
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18 Situating Hayek
Phenomenology and the Neo-liberal Project
Mark J. Smith
19 The Reading of Theoretical Texts
Peter Ekegren
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Marx after Foucault
Richard Marsden
21 The Age of Chance
Gambling in Western Culture
Gerda Reith
22 Reflexive Historical Sociology
Arpad Szakolczai
23 Durkheim and Representations
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Alison Edgley
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26 Metaphor and the Dynamics of Knowledge
Sabine Maasen and Peter Weingart
27 Living with Markets
Jeremy Shearmur
28 Durkheims Suicide
A Century of Research and Debate
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29 Post-Marxism
An Intellectual History
Stuart Sim
30 The Intellectual as Stranger
Studies in Spokespersonship
Dick Pels
31 Hermeneutic Dialogue and Social Science
A Critique of Gadamer and Habermas
Austin Harrington
32 Methodological Individualism
Background, History and Meaning
Lars Udehn
33 John Stuart Mill and Freedom of Expression
The Genesis of a Theory
K.C. ORourke
34 The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation
From Terror to Trauma
Michael Humphrey
35 Marx and Wittgenstein
Knowledge, Morality, Politics
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Arpad Szakolczai
37 Ignorance and Liberty
Lorenzo Infantino
38 Deleuze, Marx and Politics
Nicholas Thoburn
39 The Structure of Social Theory
Anthony King
40 Adorno, Habermas and the Search for a Rational Society
Deborah Cook
41 Tocquevilles Moral and Political Thought
New Liberalism
M.R.R. Ossewaarde
42 Adam Smiths Political Philosophy
The Invisible Hand and Spontaneous Order
Craig Smith
43 Social and Political Ideas of Mahatma Gandhi
Bidyut Chakrabarty
44 Counter-Enlightenments
From the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Graeme Garrard
45 The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell
A Reassessment
Stephen Ingle
46 Habermas
Rescuing the Public Sphere
Pauline Johnson
47 The Politics and Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott
Stuart Isaacs
48 Pareto and Political Theory
Joseph Femia
49 German Political Philosophy
The Metaphysics of Law
Chris Thornhill
50 The Sociology of Elites
Michael Hartmann
51 Deconstructing Habermas
Lasse Thomassen
52 Young Citizens and New Media
Learning for Democratic Participation
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53 Gambling, Freedom and Democracy
Peter J. Adams
54 The Quest for Jewish Assimilation in Modern Social Science
Amos Morris-Reich
55 Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law
William E. Scheuerman
56 Hegemony
Studies in Consensus and Coercion
Edited by Richard Howson and Kylie Smith
57 Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life
Majia Holmer Nadesan
58 Sustainability and Security within Liberal Societies
Learning to Live with the Future
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59 The Mythological State and its Empire
David Grant
60 Globalizing Dissent
Essays on Arundhati Roy
Edited by Ranjan Ghosh and Antonia Navarro-Tejero
61 The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
Mark G.E. Kelly
62 Democratic Legitimacy
Fabienne Peter
63 Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World
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64 Perspectives on Gramsci
Politics, Culture and Social Theory
