Building Cosmopolitan Communities: A Critical and Multidimensional Approach

by Amos Nascimento

Book Overview

Building Cosmopolitan Communities contributes to current cosmopolitanism debates by evaluating the justification and application of norms and human rights in different communitarian settings in order to achieve cosmopolitan ideals. Relying on a critical tradition that spans from Kant to contemporary discourse philosophy, Nascimento proposes the concept of a "multidimensional discourse community." The multidimensional model is applied and tested in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349444111
• ISBN13: 9781349444113
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"