Rereading Global Socialist Cultures After the Cold War
Subtitle: The Reassessment of a Tradition
Contributors: Dubravka Juraga (Editor); M. Keith Booker (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: July 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780275974893
Subjects: Cultural studies; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; General; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Anthropology - Cultural; Cold War in literature; Communism and literature; Communism in literature; Socialism in literature
First sentence: What cosmopolitanism popularly evokes-among other things, the thirst for another knowledge, unprejudiced striving, world travel, supple open-mindedness, broad international norms of civic equality, a politics of treaty and understanding rather than conquest-can hardly be devalued today.