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Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
Bruce Robbins
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Paperback. Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence. 256 pages. Robbins takes stock of the new cosmopolitanism, rethinking his own commitment and reflecting on the responsibilities of American intellectuals today. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFS. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 15. Weight: 376.
For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own commitment and reflecting on the responsibilities of American intellectuals today. In this era of seemingly endless U.S. warfare, Robbins contends that the declining economic and political hegemony of the United States will tempt it into blaming other nations for its problems and lashing out against them.
For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own commitment and reflecting on the responsibilities of American intellectuals today. In this era of seemingly endless U.S. warfare, Robbins contends that the declining economic and political hegemony of the United States will tempt it into blaming other nations for its problems and lashing out against them.
Under these conditions, cosmopolitanism in the traditional sense—primary loyalty ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822352099
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V9780822352099
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About Bruce Robbins
Bruce Robbins is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State and Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress, and a coeditor of Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation and Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, ... Read more
Reviews for Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
"Apart from the significant contribution that Perpetual War will make to the literature on cosmopolitanism, it is a richly elaborated work of intellectual and cultural history in its own right. Bruce Robbins is a superb writer and critic, and his analyses are incisive, deeply informed, and refreshingly blunt. Perhaps because he has for so many years been thinking about the ... Read more