Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason: Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship in Bloomington, MN

This book's critical approach addresses the anachronism, essentialism and ethnocentrism that underlie contemporary theoretical and methodological uses of the term cosmopolitanism. It explores the concept of cosmopolitan reason from the viewpoints of comparative literature, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, postcolonialism and moral philosophy.