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Building Cosmopolitan Communities: A Critical and Multidimensional Approach
Amos Nascimento
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Building Cosmopolitan Communities contributes to current cosmopolitanism debates by evaluating the justification and application of norms and human rights in different communitarian settings in order to achieve cosmopolitan ideals. Relying on a critical tradition that spans from Kant to contemporary discourse philosophy, Nascimento proposes the concept of a "multidimensional discourse community." The multidimensional model is applied and tested in various dialogues, resulting in a new cosmopolitan ideal based on a contemporary discursive paradigm. As the first scholarly text to provide an interdisciplinary survey of the theories and discourses on human rights and cosmopolitanism, Building Cosmopolitan Communities is a valuable resource ... Read more
Building Cosmopolitan Communities contributes to current cosmopolitanism debates by evaluating the justification and application of norms and human rights in different communitarian settings in order to achieve cosmopolitan ideals. Relying on a critical tradition that spans from Kant to contemporary discourse philosophy, Nascimento proposes the concept of a "multidimensional discourse community." The multidimensional model is applied and tested in various dialogues, resulting in a new cosmopolitan ideal based on a contemporary discursive paradigm. As the first scholarly text to provide an interdisciplinary survey of the theories and discourses on human rights and cosmopolitanism, Building Cosmopolitan Communities is a valuable resource ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137269836
SKU
V9781137269836
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99-15
About Amos Nascimento
Amos Nascimento is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Tacoma, USA. He is the author of Im Zwielicht der Aufklärung (2009) and editor of A Matter of Discourse (1997 ), Brasil: Perspectivas Internacionais (2001), and Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Cosmopolitan Ideals (with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, 2013).
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