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As the final installment of Public Culture s Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanismor ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond ones particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the usual Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South Asia, China, and Africa. By examining new archives, proposing new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new possibilities of political practice, the contributors critically probe the concept of cosmopolitanism. On the one hand, cosmopolitanism may be taken to promise a form of supraregional political solidarity, but on the other, these essays argue, it may erode precisely those intimate cultural differences that derive their meaning from particular places and traditions. Given that most cosmopolitan political formationsfrom the Roman empire and European imperialism to contemporary globalizationhave been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and eg

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Author

Dipesh Chakrabarty; Homi K. Bhabha; Sheldon Pollock; Carol A. Breckenridge

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822328995

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Political Science, Fiction

Rating

4.38 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14