Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents

Lee Ward is professor of political science at Baylor University.

• Introduction: Contextualizing the Age of Brexit and TrumpLee WardChapter One: The Myth of Cicero’s CosmopolitanismCary J. NedermanChapter Two: Johannes Althusius’s Cosmopolitan Defense of Local Politics Nicholas Aroney and Simon P. KennedyChapter Three: Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Jewish Political Thought Vasileios SyrosChapter Four: Rousseau and the Problem of CosmopolitanismJohn T. ScottChapter Five: A Cosmopolitanism that Populists Could Love: Kant on Refugees, Elites, and National HonorJeffrey ChurchChapter Six: Citizen Marx: On His Distinction between Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism Paul Christopher GrayChapter Seven: Nietzsche’s Good Europeans: Beyond Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism Paul KirklandChapter Eight: From ‘Global Culture’ to ‘Authentic History’: Notes on the Preview of Heidegger’s Contributions to PhilosophyJosé Daniel ParraChapter Nine: John Rawls against the Clash of CivilizationsMichel SeymourChapter Ten: Glocalism and Democracy in James Tully’s Critique of Cosmopolitanism and ImperialismLee WardChapter Eleven: Rethinking the Boundary ProblemZoltan Miklosi and Szolt KapelnerChapter Twelve: “Forced to be free”: Nationalism and the Hijab Controversy in FranceAnn WardChapter Thirteen: Demos or no demos? Citizenship and Democracy in the EUClaudia WiesnerChapter Fourteen: A Decline in Democratic Say? The Accounts of James Allan and Pierre ManentCarl Eric Scott

“This important and timely work provides a philosophical analysis of the causes and conditions that led to nationalist movements in an era of globalism and cosmopolitanism. The contributors are second to none, and provide a range of perspectives that makes this volume indispensable for our times.”