Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights - Couverture souple

Cheah

 
9780674023949: Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
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ISBN 10 : 0674023943 ISBN 13 : 9780674023949
Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Globalization promises to bring people around the world together, to unite them as members of the human community. To such sanguine expectations, Pheng Cheah responds deftly with a sobering account of how the "inhuman" imperatives of capitalism and technology are transforming our understanding of humanity and its prerogatives. Through an examination of debates about cosmopolitanism and human rights, Inhuman Conditions questions key ideas about what it means to be human that underwrite our understanding of globalization. Cheah asks whether the contemporary international division of labor so irreparably compromises and mars global solidarities and our sense of human belonging that we must radically rethink cherished ideas about humankind as the bearer of dignity and freedom or culture as a power of transcendence. Cheah links influential arguments about the new cosmopolitanism drawn from the humanities, the social sciences, and cultural studies 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. Cheah also proposes a radical rethinking of the normative force of human rights in light of how Asian values challenge human rights universalism.

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À propos de l?auteur

Pheng Cheah is Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley.

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Éditeur
Harvard University Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674023943
ISBN 13 
9780674023949
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Nombre de pages
336
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9780674022959: Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism And Human Rights

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ISBN 10 :  0674022955 ISBN 13 :  9780674022959
Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2007
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