Inhuman Conditions : : On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights /

Inhuman Conditions : : On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights / / Pheng Cheah.

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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 Archive 1893-1999
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Cheah, Pheng,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2007]
©2006
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Globalization and the Inhuman
  • I Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason
  • 1 The Cosmopolitical—Today
  • 2 Postnational Light
  • 3 Given Culture Rethinking Cosmopolitical Freedom in Transnationalism
  • 4 Chinese Cosmopolitanism in Two Senses and Postcolonial National Memory
  • II Human Rights and the Inhuman
  • 5 Posit(ion)ing Human Rights in the Current Global Conjuncture
  • 6 “Bringing into the Home a Stranger Far More Foreign” Human Rights and the Global Trade in Domestic Labor
  • 7 Humanity within the Field of Instrumentality
  • Notes
  • Index

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