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Building Cosmopolitan Communities

A Critical and Multidimensional Approach

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  1. Amos Nascimento
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Plural Discourse Communities as Point of Departure

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      Pages 3-18

  3. A Critical and Multidimensional Approach

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. The Transformations of the Critical Tradition

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      Pages 21-55

    3. Discourse Philosophy as a Critical Framework

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      Pages 57-95

  4. Communities, Human Rights, and Cosmopolitan Ideals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Individuality and Collectivity in Changing Concepts of Community

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      Pages 99-132

    3. From Plurality to Global Human Rights Discourses

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      Pages 133-172

    4. Cosmopolitan Ideals and the Norms of Universality

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      Pages 173-216

  5. Conclusion

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      Pages 217-217
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    2. Cosmopolitanism Communities under Construction

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      Pages 219-226

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 227-262
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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 to scholars of philosophy, political science, social theory, and globalization studies.

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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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