Building Cosmopolitan Communities

Amos Nascimento is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, Tacoma, USA. He is the author of Im Zwielicht der Aufklärung (2009) and editor of A Matter of Discourse (1997 ), Brasil: Perspectivas Internacionais (2001), and Human Rights, Human Dignity, and Cosmopolitan Ideals (with Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, 2013).

• Introduction 1. Plural Discourse Communities as Point of Departure PART I: A CRITICAL AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH 2. The Transformations of the Critical Tradition 3. Discourse Philosophy as a Critical Framework PART II: COMMUNITIES, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND COSMOPOLITAN IDEALS 4. Individuality and Collectivity in Changing Concepts of Community 5. From Plurality to Global Human Rights Discourses 6. Cosmopolitan Ideals and the Norms of Universality 7. Cosmopolitan Communities under Construction Conclusion

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