Thinking Differently About Cosmopolitanism

Marianna Papastephanou has studied and taught at the University of Cardiff, UK. She has also studied and researched in Berlin, Germany. She is currently teaching Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests include political philosophy; the modern vs. postmodern divide; utopia; the Frankfurt School; and epistemological, linguistic, and ethical issues in education. She has written numerous articles on these topics, and she is the editor of K-O Apel: From a Transcendental-Semiotic Point of View (Manchester: MUP, 1997) and the author of Educated Fear and Educated Hope (Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009).

• Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Setting Up the New Cosmopolitanism; Chapter 2 Eccentric Cosmopolitanism and a Globalized World; Chapter 3 A Critique of Globalist Positions; Chapter 4 Identity-versus-Difference Dilemmas; Chapter 5 Home, Homelessness, and the Cosmopolitan Self; Chapter 6 Who’s Cosmopolitan?; Chapter 7 Cosmopolitanism and Patriotism as Boundary Discourses; Chapter 8 The Importance of Conceptual Reconsiderations; Chapter 9 Revisiting Patriotism; Chapter 10 Patriotism, Cosmopolitanism, and Justice; Chapter 11 Reflections on an All-Encompassing Conception of Cosmopolitanism;