Title: At home in the world
First published: 1997
Description: From every quarter we hear of a new global culture, postcolonial, hybrid, announcing the death of nationalism, the arrival of cosmopolitanism. But under the drumbeat attending this trend, Timothy Brennan detects another, altogether different sound. Polemical, passionate, certain to provoke, his book exposes the drama being played out under the guise of globalism.

A bracing critique of the critical self-indulgence that calls itself cosmopolitanism, it also takes note of the many countervailing forces acting against globalism in its facile, homogenizing sense. A critical call to arms, At Home in the World summons intellectuals and scholars to reinvigorate critical cultural studies. In stripping the false and headless from the new cosmopolitanism, Brennan revitalizes the idea.
Subjects: American influences, American literature, Arts, Modern, Civilization, Modern, Cosmopolitanism, History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Modern Arts, Modern Civilization, Popular culture, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, Civilisation moderne et contemporaine, Arts, Weltburgertum, Culture populaire, Litterature americaine, Histoire, Histoire et critique, Internationalisme, Influence americaine, Vie intellectuelle, Intercultural communication, Intellectuals, Multiculturalism, Internationalism
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: E169.12 .B694 1997