Beyond Cosmopolitanism: Towards Planetary Transformations [Hardcover]

Considering the different traditions of cosmopolitan thinking and experimentation, this cutting edge volume examines the contemporary revival of cosmopolitanism as a response to the challenges of living in an interdependent world. Through a unique multidisciplinary approach, it takes the debate beyond the one-sided universalism of the Euro-American world and explores the multiverse of transformations which confront cosmopolitanism. The collection highlights central questions of cosmopolitan responsibility, global citizenship and justice as well as the importance of dialogue among civilizations, cultures, religions and traditions. Exploring the ethical and political dimensions of globalization, it outlines the pathways of going beyond cosmopolitanism by striving for a post-colonial cosmopolis characterized by global justice, trans-civilizational dialogues and dignity for all.

Beyond Cosmopolitanism:?An Invitation to Adventure of Ideas and Multiverse of Transformations.-?Cosmopolitanism and Beyond:?Towards Planetary Realizations.-?Cosmopolitanism Beyond Anthropocentrism:?The Ecological Self and Transcivilizational Dialogue.-?Non-Linear Belonging as a Companion to Cosmopolitan Realization:?Creative Memory Works and?Reimagining the Relationship Between?Xenia?and?Hestia.-?Cosmopolitanism, the Cognitive Order of Modernity, and Conflicting Models of World Openness: On the Prospects of Collective Learning.-?Cosmopolitanism and Understanding in the Social Sciences.-?Ethics of Cosmopolitanism: The Confucian Tradition.-?Tolstoy and Cosmopolitanism.-?Cosmopolitanism, Spirituality and Social Action:?Mahatma Gandhi and Rudolf Steiner.-?The Divergent Cosmopolitanisms of Hannah Arendt.-?Cosmopolitanism and an Ethics of Sacrifice.-?Cosmopolitanism and Reconciliation in a Postcolonial World.-?Corporealising Cosmopolitanism: The Right of Desire.-?Old and Emerging Cosmopolitan Traditions at the Malabar Coast of South Inló#