Embedded cosmopolitanism
Subtitle: duties to strangers and enemies in a world of "dislocated communities"
By: by Toni Erskine.
Contributors: British Academy.
Publisher: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780197264379
Subjects: International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects; Cosmopolitanism
Description: "In this innovative book, Toni Erskine offers a challenging and original normative approach to some of the most pressing practical concerns in world politics - including the contested nature of the prohibitions against torture and the targeting of civilians in the 'war on terror'." "Erskine's vision of 'embedded cosmopolitanism' responds to the charge that conventional cosmopolitan arguments neglect the profound importance of community and culture, particularity and passion. Bringing together insights from communitarian and feminist political thought, she defends the idea that community membership is morally constitutive - while arguing that the communities that define us are not necessarily territorially bounded and that a moral perspective situated in them need not be parochial." "Embedded Cosmopolitanism provides a powerful account of where we stand in relation to 'strangers' and 'enemies' in a diverse and divided world; and provides a new theoretical framework for addressing the relationship between our moral starting point and the scope of our duties to others."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.