Toward an Imperfect Education: Facing Humanity, Rethinking Cosmopolitanism

by Sharon Todd

The theory of cosmopolitanism is built on a paradoxical commitment to a universal idea of humanity and to a respect for human pluralism. Toward an Imperfect Education critiques the assumed "goodness" of humans that underwrites the idea of humanity and explores how antagonistic human interactions such as conflict, violence, and suffering are a fundamental aspect of life in a pluralistic world. This book proposes that the inescapable difference between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594516227
• ISBN13: 9781594516221
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"