Inhuman Conditions : : On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights / / Pheng CHEAH.
Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Inhuman Conditions questions key ideas about what it means to be human. Cheah links influential arguments about the new cosmopolitanism to a perceptive examination of the older cosmopolitanism of Kant and Marx, and juxtaposes...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Globalization and the Inhuman -- I. The Cosmopolitical-Today -- II. Human Rights and the Inhuman -- Notes Index -- Notes -- Index |
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| Summary: | Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Inhuman Conditions questions key ideas about what it means to be human. Cheah links influential arguments about the new cosmopolitanism to a perceptive examination of the older cosmopolitanism of Kant and Marx, and juxtaposes them with proliferating formations of collective culture to reveal the flaws in claims about the imminent decline of the nation-state and the obsolescence of popular nationalism. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780674029460 9783110756067 9783110442205 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/9780674029460 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Pheng CHEAH. |