Cosmopolitanism and Place: (American Philosophy)

Addressing perspectives about who "we" are, the importance of place and home, and the many differences that still separate individuals, this volume reimagines cosmopolitanism in light of our differences, including the different places we all inhabit and the many places where we do not feel at home. Beginning with the two-part recognition that the world is a smaller place and that it is indeed many worlds, Cosmopolitanism and Place critically explores what it means to assert that all people are citizens of the world, everywhere in the world, as well as persons bounded by a universal and shared morality.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Section I: Reconstructing Cosmopolitan Ideals Introduction / Jessica Wahman 1. Déjà Vu All Over Again?: The Challenge of Cosmopolitanism / John Lysaker 2. Home, Hospitality, and the Cosmopolitan Address / Noëlle McAfee 3. Cultural Heritages and Universal Principles / Juan Carlos Pereda Failache 4. Not Black or White but Chocolate Brown: Reframing Issues / Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley 5. Pragmatism and the Challenge of a Cosmopolitan Aesthetics: Framing the Issues / Robert E. Innis Section II: Taking Place Seriously Introduction / José Medina 6. Toward a Politics of Co-Habitation: "Dwelling" in the Manner of Wayfarers / Vincent Colapietro 7. Cosmopolitan Ignorance and "Not Knowing Your Place" / José Medina 8. America and Cosmopolitan Responsibility: Some Thoughts on an Itinerant Duty / Jeff Edmonds 9. Loss of Place / Megan Craig 10. The Loss of Confidence in the World / Josep E. Corbí 11. Climate Change and Place: Delimiting Cosmopolitanism / Nancy Tuana Section III: Reimaging Home and World Introduction / John J. Stuhr 12. Citizen or Guest?: Cosmopolitanism as Homelessness / Jessica Wahman 13. Cosmopolitan Hope / Jennifer L. Hansen 14. Hospitality or Generosity?: Cosmopolitan Transactions / Cynthia Gayman 15. On Cosmopolitan Publics and Online Communities / Erin C. Tarver 16. A New "International of Decent Feelings"?: Cosmopolitanism and the Erasure of Class / William S. Lewis 17. Somewhere, Dreaming of Cosmopolitanism / John J. Stuhr Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Jessica Wahman is Visiting Research Scholar at Cornell University. José M. Medina is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. John J. Stuhr is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies at Emory University. Vincent Colapietro is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at Penn State University. His publications include Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom: John William Miller & the Crises of Modernity. Josep E. Corbi is a philosophy professor in the Department of Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge at the University of Valencia. His most recent book is Morality, Self-Knowledge, and Human Suffering: An Essay on the Loss of the World. Megan Craig is a painter and Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Master's Program in philosophy and art at Stony Brook University. She is author of Levinas and James: Toward a Pragmatic Phenomenology (IUP, 2010). Jeff Edmonds is Academic Dean and Dean of the Freshman and Senior Classes at the University School of Nashville. He is the author of The Logic of Long Distance: Connecting Running and Philosophy. Cynthia Gayman is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Philosophy at Murray State University. Jennifer L. Hansen is Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of the First Year at St. Lawrence University. Robert E. Innis is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His publications include Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense: Language, Perception, Technics. Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at California State University, Bakersfield. Her most recent book is Josiah Royce: In Focus (IUP, 2008). William S. Lewis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Skidmore College. His publications include Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism. John Lysaker is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Emory University. He is author of After Emerson (IUP, 2017). Noëlle McAfee is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. Her most recent book is Democracy and the Political Unconscious. Jose M. Medina is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His books include The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations. Juan Carlos Pereda Failache is Professor of Philosophy at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas. John J. Stuhr is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies at Emory University. His most recent book is Pragmatic Fashions: Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd (IUP, 2015). Erin C. Tarver is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oxford College of Emory University. Her publications include (co-edited with Shannon Sullivan) Feminist Interpretations of William James. Nancy Tuana is the Class of 1949 Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Penn State University. Her publications include Women and the History of Philosophy. Jessica Wahman is currently Visiting Research Scholar at Cornell University. She is author of Narrative Naturalism: An Alternative Framework for Philosophy of Mind. Jessica Wahman is Visiting Research Scholar at Cornell University. José M. Medina is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. John J. Stuhr is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies at Emory University.