The humble cosmopolitan : rights, diversity, and trans-state democracy / Luis Cabrera
- Author:
- Cabrera, Luis, 1966-
- Published:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
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- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
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- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Claims of Cosmopolitan Arrogance and Humility -- 1.1.Neo-imperial Conspiracies and "People of the Soil" -- 1.2.Regional Integration and Democratic "Fit" -- 1.3.Some Variants of Cosmopolitanism -- 1.4.Claims of Cosmopolitan Arrogance -- 1.5.Outline of the Book -- I.CONFIGURING COSMOPOLITAN HUMILITY -- 2.Ambedkar on Political Humility and Challenging Political Arrogance -- 2.1.Introduction: Challenging the "Arrogance of Caste" -- 2.2."We Are Because He Was": Ambedkar's Struggle and Legacy -- 2.3.Gandhi and Ambedkar: Competing Visions of Political and Social Inclusion -- 2.4.Gandhi and Ambedkar: Contrasting Relations to Humility -- 2.5.Conceptualizing Humility and Arrogance -- 2.6.Ambedkar on Political Humility -- 2.7.Conclusion -- 3.Embracing the "Fiction of Equality": Grounding Equal Status and Categories of Fundamental Rights -- 3.1.Introduction -- 3.2.Ambedkar on the Fiction of Equality -- 3.3.Grounding High Equal Moral Status -- 3.3.1.Situating Equal Worth: Degradation, Humiliation, Atrocity -- 3.3.2.Possible Objections -- 3.4.Grounding Some Categories of Individual Rights -- 3.5.Conclusion -- 4.The "Soul of Democracy": Instrumental Justification and Political Humility -- 4.1.Introduction -- 4.2.Intrinsic Approaches to Democracy -- 4.2.1.Intrinsic-Autonomy Accounts -- 4.2.2.Intrinsic-Equality Accounts -- 4.3.A Rights-Based, Primarily Instrumental Approach to Democracy -- 4.4.Correlations Between Democracy and Rights Protections -- 4.5.Input, Exchange, and Publicity Mechanisms -- 4.6.Challenge Mechanisms -- 4.7.Conclusion -- 5.The Global Challenge of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights -- 5.1.Introduction -- 5.2.Grounded Normative Theory -- 5.2.1.Some Grounded Normative Theory Aims and Uses -- 5.2.2.Grounded Normative Theory in Practice -- 5.3.The Present Study -- 5.4.The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights -- 5.4.1.Documenting Caste-Based Exclusion and Violence -- 5.4.2.Training, Oversight, and Direct Action -- 5.5.NCDHRs Global Outreach and Challenge -- 5.5.1.Recognition and Resistance in the International Human Rights Regime -- 5.5.2.NCDHR Views on Global Outreach -- 5.5.3.Assessing Progress -- 5.6.Conclusion -- 6.The Arrogance of States -- 6.1.Introduction -- 6.2.Instrumentally Oriented Institutional Cosmopolitanism -- 6.3.The Roots of Political Arrogance in the Current System -- 6.4.Political Selfishness and Apathy -- 6.5.Institutional Global Citizenship -- 6.6."The World Owes a Duty": Individual Rights and Global Citizen Duties -- 6.6.1.Objection 1: No Global State, No Global Citizenship -- 6.6.2.Objection 2: No Global State, No Global Justice -- 6.7.Institutionally Oriented Duties of Global Citizenship -- 6.7.1.Exemplars: NCDHR and Institutionally Developmental Global Citizenship -- 6.7.2.Institutional Objects of Global Citizen Duties -- 6.8.Empirical Objections: Inescapable Arrogance and Institutional Performance -- 6.9.Conclusion -- II.ADDRESSING CLAIMS OF COSMOPOLITAN ARROGANCE -- 7.The Soul of Global Democracy -- 7.1.Introduction -- 7.2.Nussbaum's Retreat from Cosmopolitanism -- 7.2.1.Cosmopolitanism and Particular Attachments -- 7.2.2.Toleration, Diversity, and Freestanding Principles -- 7.2.3.Rejecting Cosmopolitan Institutions -- 7.2.4.Ambedkar's Challenge: "Freeing the Tyrant" -- 7.3.Caney on Global Democracy and Reasonable Disagreement -- 7.4.The Soul of Global Democracy -- 7.4.1."Domestic Downloading" Approaches to Rights Specification -- 7.4.2.Cosmopolitan Rights Specification -- 7.5.Rights at the Founding -- 7.6.Conclusion -- 8.Breaking India: Moral Parochialism and Neo-imperialism Objections -- 8.1.Introduction -- 8.2."A Guru Worthy of Worship": The Ideological Roots ofHindutva -- 8.3.Hindu Nationalism's Political Rise -- 8.4.Bharatiya Janata Party Views and the Breakinglndia Critique -- 8.5.Moral Parochialism Objections -- 8.5.1."There Is Nothing Bharatiya About It:" Institutional Form and Moral Parochialism -- 8.5.2.Answering Disloyalty and Imperial Collusion Claims -- 8.6.Civilizational Hierarchy and Paternalism: Kant and Ambedkar -- 8.7.Conclusion -- 9.Political Arrogance and National Belonging: The UK Independence Party, Turkey, and the European Union -- 9.1.Introduction: At Market Square, Royton -- 9.2.UKIP's Rise, Triumph, and Demise -- 9.3.UKIP Views on Suprastate Democracy -- 9.4.The Turkish Case: Rising Authoritarianism and Fading Accession Hopes -- 9.5.Political Arrogance and Regional Suprastate Democracy -- 9.6.National Identity and "Cultural Fit" -- 9.7.Liberal-Nationalism and Suprastate Democracy -- 9.8.Lessons from Brexit? -- 9.9.Conclusion -- 10.Conclusion -- 10.1.Introduction and Summary of Argument -- 10.2.Ambedkarian Cues for Trans-state Democracy -- 10.3.Directions for Future Research.
- Summary:
- Cosmopolitanism is said by many critics to be arrogant. In emphasizing universal moral principles and granting no fundamental significance to national or other group belonging, it is held to wrongly treat those making non-universalist claims as not authorized to speak, while at the same time implicitly treating those in non-Western societies as not qualified. This text works to address such objections. It does so in part by engaging the work of B.R. Ambedkar, architect of India's 1950 Constitution and revered champion of the country's Dalits (formerly 'untouchables').
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- ISBN:
- 9780190869540 (ebook)
- Audience Notes:
- Specialized.
- Note:
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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