The Hedgehog Review articles from September 2009

The Hedgehog Review archives from September 2009

The cosmopolitan predicament.(Editorial)
September 22, 2009... In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama made what must surely be an unprecedented declaration for someone with serious designs on the U.S. presidency. To a crowd of cheering Berliners, he announced: "I speak to you not as a candidate for president,...

Mapping the good world: the new cosmopolitans and our changing world picture.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2009... Cosmopolitan Renaissance Cosmopolitanism has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years. Outside the rather small segment of cultural elites for whom the term is meaningful, however, both the fact and significance of this...

Apollo.(Poem)
September 22, 2009...... whoever lives out there in space must surely call Earth "the blue planet"... --Ed White I. For the First Manned Moon Orbit ...

Cosmopolitanism and democracy: affinities and tensions.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2009... Cosmopolitanism has become a much-evoked term in contemporary debates across a variety of fields, ranging from law to cultural studies, from philosophy to international politics. For me, cosmopolitanism involves the recognition that human beings...

Making sense of cosmopolitanism: a conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah.(INTERVIEW)(Interview)
September 22, 2009... What is a cosmopolitan? What does it mean to be a "citizen of the world"? You might think that these two terms are interchangeable, so let me say what I think the essence of cosmopolitanism is. "Cosmopolitanism" etymologically comes from an...

The universe in a grain of sand? Cosmopolitanism and nationalism reconsidered: a review of Seyla Benhabib's Another Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism, and Craig Calhoun's Nations Matter.(REVIEW ESSAY)('Another Cosmopolitanism,' 'Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers,' and 'Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream')(Book review)
September 22, 2009... Benhabib, Seyla. Another Cosmopolitanism. The Berkeley Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. New York: Norton, 2006. Calhoun, Craig....

On cosmopolitanism ...
September 22, 2009... If what philosophers say about kinship between god and man is true, what else is left for men than to follow the example of Socrates, and when one is asked where one is from, never say "I am an Athenian," or "I am a Corinthian," but "I am a...

Cosmopolitanism and nationalism.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2009... The dream of world citizenship and the universal republic has a long history. In ancient Rome, the Stoics envisaged the unity of humanity in a community of virtue. In the Middle Ages, the unity of church and state in Christendom extended this...

The century's decline.(Poem)
September 22, 2009... Our twentieth century was going to improve on the others. It will never prove it now, now that its years are numbered, its gait is shaky, its breath is short. Too many things have happened that weren't supposed to happened and what was supposed...

Secularization and the universalizing process.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2009... The current literary and intellectual fashions that prevail in the academic life of our campuses urge that nothing is unique or exceptional about our western civilization except perhaps its oppressiveness. Criticism of the West has indeed come...

Cosmopolitanism: three etudes in the quest for a lost ideal of civilization.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2009... Translated from the Dutch by Marjolijn de Jager Was anzudeuten war, ist eben nur, dass der kosmopolitische Geist etwas anderes ist, als polyglotte Geubtheit und mondaner Dilettantismus. Was ist er denn? Vielleicht nicht anders als der...

Cosmopolitanism and ritual movement.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2009... Human beings are social creatures. Infants survive only by interacting with others through gesture and then through speech, and thereby establish agreed upon meanings and learn to behave accordingly. Initially, communication with the mother is...

Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom.(Book review)
September 22, 2009... Harvey, David. Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (1) "A better world is possible" has become the rallying cry of the anti-neoliberal globalization movement. In Cosmopolitanism and the...

Cosmopolitanism: A Bibliographic Essay.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2009... Cosmopolitanism is back. In the last decade, nearly one thousand books have been published in English with the word "cosmopolitan" or "cosmopolitanism" in the title. (1) If titles in academic publishing are a reliable marker, we are witnessing a...