The Cosmopolites

Author : Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 099097636X

Get Book

The Cosmopolites by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Pdf

The cosmopolites are literally "citizens of the world," from the Greek word kosmos, meaning "world," and polites, or "citizen." Garry Davis, aka World Citizen No. 1, and creator of the World Passport, was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who renounced his American citizenship in 1948 as a form of protest against nationalism, sovereign borders, and war. Today there are cosmopolites of all stripes, rich or poor, intentional or unwitting, from 1-percenters who own five passports thanks to tax-havens to theBidoon, the stateless people of countries like the United Arab Emirates. Journalist Atossa Abrahamian, herself a cosmopolite, travels around the globe to meet the people who have come to embody an increasingly fluid, borderless world. Along the way you are introduced to a colorful cast of characters, including passport-burning atheist hackers, the new Knights of Malta, California libertarian "seasteaders," who are residents of floating city-states,Bidoons, who have been forced to be citizens of the island nation Comoros, entrepreneurs in the business of buying and selling passports, cosmopolites who live on a luxury cruise ship calledThe World, and shady businessmen with ties to Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad.

Author : Harry Brewster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Artists
ISBN : UOM:39015032250592

Get Book

The Cosmopolites by Harry Brewster Pdf

Author : Lisette Josephides,Alexandra Hall
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782382775

Get Book

We the Cosmopolitans by Lisette Josephides,Alexandra Hall Pdf

The provocative title of this book is deliberately and challengingly universalist, matching the theoretically experimental essays, where contributors try different ideas to answer distinct concerns regarding cosmopolitanism. Leading anthropologists explore what cosmopolitanism means in the context of everyday life, variously viewing it as an aspect of kindness and empathy, as tolerance, hospitality and openness, and as a defining feature of pan-human individuality. The chapters thus advance an existential critique of abstract globalization discourse. The book enriches interdisciplinary debates about hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project, examining the form of its lived effects and offering new ideas and case studies to work with.

Author : John Richard Beste
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : England
ISBN : OXFORD:590079225

Get Book

Odious Comparisons; Or, The Cosmopolite in England by John Richard Beste Pdf

Author : Leigh T.I. Penman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350156982

Get Book

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism by Leigh T.I. Penman Pdf

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism challenges our most basic assumptions about the history of an ideal at the heart of modernity. Beginning in antiquity and continuing through to today, Leigh T.I. Penman examines how European thinkers have understood words like 'kosmopolites', 'cosmopolite', 'cosmopolitan' and its cognates. The debates over their meanings show that there has never been a single, stable cosmopolitan concept, but rather a range of concepts-sacred and secular, inclusive and exclusive-all described with the cosmopolitan vocabulary. While most scholarly attention in the history of cosmopolitanism has focussed on Greek and Roman antiquity or the Enlightenments of the 18th century, this book shows that the crucial period in the evolution of modern cosmopolitanism was early modernity. Between 1500 and 1800 philosophers, theologians, cartographers, jurists, politicians, alchemists and heretics all used this vocabulary, shedding ancient associations, and adding new ones at will. The chaos of discourses prompted thinkers to reflect on the nature of the cosmopolitan ideal, and to conceive of an abstract 'cosmopolitanism' for the first time. This meticulously researched book provides the first intellectual history of an overlooked period in the evolution of a core ideal. As such, The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism is an essential work for anyone seeking a contextualised understanding of cosmopolitanism today.

Author : Jan Assmann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780745681498

Get Book

Religio Duplex by Jan Assmann Pdf

In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians, who set out to present their culture as divided between the popular and the elite. By examining their beliefs, he argues, we can distinguish the two faces of ancient religions more generally: the outer face (that of the official religion) and the inner face (encompassing the mysterious nature of religious experience). Assmann explains that the Early Modern period witnessed the birth of the idea of dual religion with, on the one hand, the religion of reason and, on the other, that of revelation. This concept gained new significance in the Enlightenment when the dual structure of religion was transposed onto the individual. This meant that man now owed his allegiance not only to his native religion, but also to a universal 'religion of mankind'. In fact, argues Assmann, religion can now only hold a place in our globalized world in this way, as a religion that understands itself as one among many and has learned to see itself through the eyes of the other. This bold and wide-ranging book will be essential reading for historians, theologians and anyone interested in the nature of religion and its role in the shaping of the modern world.

Author : Hana Kubátová,Jan Láníček
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351668163

Get Book

Jews and Gentiles in Central and Eastern Europe during the Holocaust by Hana Kubátová,Jan Láníček Pdf

Providing diverse insights into Jewish–Gentile relations in East Central Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War until the reestablishment of civic societies after the fall of Communism in the late 1980s, this volume brings together scholars from various disciplines – including history, sociology, political science, cultural studies, film studies and anthropology – to investigate the complexity of these relations, and their transformation, from perspectives beyond the traditional approach that deals purely with politics. This collection thus looks for interactions between the public and private, and what is more, it does so from a still rather rare comparative perspective, both chronological and geographic. It is this interdisciplinary and comparative perspective that enables us to scrutinize the interaction between the individual majority societies and the Jewish minorities in a longer time frame, and hence we are able to revisit complex and manifold encounters between Jews and Gentiles, including but not limited to propaganda, robbery, violence but also help and rescue. In doing so, this collection challenges the representation of these encounters in post-war literature, films, and the historical consciousness. This book was originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies.

Author : Judith Farr
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674656660

Get Book

The Passion of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr Pdf

In a profound new analysis of Dickinson's life and work, Judith Farr explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture, and intense dedication to art that characterize Dickinson's poems, deciphering their many complex and witty references to texts and paintings of the day.

Author : P. GANDS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022974752

Get Book

The German Literary Companion, Or a Guide to German Literature: Being a Choice Collection of Pieces in Prose and Verse ... With an Introduction ... Translations and Notes, and Sketches of the Lives of the Most Celebrated German Writers ... Intended to Serve as a Sequel to Ollendorff's New Method of Learning the German Language by P. GANDS Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555032326

Get Book

Tait's Edinburgh magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : American literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101050624509

Get Book

Contributors' Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Brighty Rands
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600070413

Get Book

Tangled Talk by William Brighty Rands Pdf

Author : Herbert J. Gans
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231074032

Get Book

People, Plans, and Policies by Herbert J. Gans Pdf

The primary theme of this collection of essays is that the cities' basic problems are poverty and racism, and until these concerns are addressed by bringing about racial equality, creating jobs, and instituting other reforms, the generally low quality of urban life will persist. Gans argues that the individual must work to alter society. He believes that not only must parents have jobs to improve their children's school performance, but that the country needs a modernized "New Deal," a more labor-intensive economy, and a thirty-two hour work week to achieve full employment. Other controversial ideas presented in this book include Gans's opposition to the whole notion of an underclass, which he feels is the latest way for the nonpoor to unjustly label the poor as undeserving. He also believes that poverty continues to plague society because it is often useful to the nonpoor. He is critical of architecture that aims above all to be aesthetic or to make philosophical statements, is doubtful that planners can or should try to reform our social or personal lives, and thinks we should concentrate on achieving individual public policies until we learn how to properly plan as a society.

Author : Philip Kasinitz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814746400

Get Book

Metropolis by Philip Kasinitz Pdf

Draws on renowned social thinkers to help understand why Americans flock to urban centers The modern city is the nexus of culture, politics, and art. Despite the manifold problems cities face, more and more Americans are abandoning rural areas and relocating to urban centers. By the year 2000, 4 out of 5 Americans will live within one hour of a major city. What has prompted this emphasis on the city? Chronicling the rise of the modern city, Metropolis draws from the work of such renowned social thinkers as Georg Simmel, Lewis Mumford, Walter Benjamin, Richard Sennett, and Herbert Gans, to illustrate how and why we have come to be an urban society and what the future holds for the American city. Each of the five sections (on modernity and the urban ethos; New York City; community and social bonds in the city; social relations and public places; and the role of space, race, class, and politics in the American city) is prefaced by an introduction by the editor, highlighting the issues under discussion.

Author : R. E. Pahl
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483181240

Get Book

Readings in Urban Sociology by R. E. Pahl Pdf

Readings in Urban Sociology covers the specialized aspect of sociology, together with an introduction designed to relate the selected Readings to the state of sociological knowledge and research in the field in question. This book is organized into four parts encompassing 12 chapters, and begins with an overview of the study of urbanization and urban sociology. The opening part describes the nature of industrial urbanism in Great Britain. This part deals with the development of British urban sociology and the idea of neighborhood community. The next part examines the distinction between ways of life in the modern city and the modern suburb. This part also looks into the context of urbanization involving population dispersal and diffusion. The closing parts provide an analysis of the urban system in terms of a conflict model and demonstrate the development of Prague's ecological structure. These parts also discuss the notion of a rural-urban continuum and the process of adjustment to an urban system in Africa. This book will prove useful to sociologists and researchers.