Beyond Cosmopolitanism, 1st ed. 2018 Towards Planetary Transformations

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 India: A study with Muslim students in Kozhikode, Kerala.- De-Orientalising Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: Towards a Local Cosmopolitan Ethics.- Some Conceptual and Structural Problems of Global Cosmopolitanism.- Human Rights, Universalism and Cosmopolitanism: Between Cultures and Civilizations.- The Hermeneutic Foundations of a Cosmopolitan Public Sphere.- From Shahrukh Khan to Shakira: Reflections on Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism Among Young French People.- Cultivating Humanity? Education and Capabilities for a Global ‘Great Transition’.

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught at many universities in India and abroad, including Aalborg University (Denmark), Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris (France), the University of Kentucky (USA), University of Freiburg & Humboldt University (Germany), and Jagiellonian University (Poland). His research focuses on social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature.

Provides a truly multidisciplinary and multicultural examination of the cosmopolitanism for the 21st century

Exploring the ethical and political dimensions of globalization through the concept of cosmopolitanism

Address the key questions of responsibility, citizenship, justice and dialogue in a globalized world