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Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress

Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress

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Series: Cultural Front, Book 5

General SociologyInternational RelationsSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0814775144
ISBN13: 9780814775141
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Jan 1 1999
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.96 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.
Building on his previous work, Robbins here takes up the question of the status of international human rights. Robbins' conception of internationalism is driven not only by the imperatives of global human rights policy, but by an understanding of transnational cultures, thus linking practical policymaking to cultural politics at the expense of neither. Robbins' cultural criticism, in other words, affords us much more than an understanding of how culture shapes our lives. Instead, Robbins shows, particularly in his discussions of Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty, Susan Sontag, Michael Walzer and others, how culture itself has become a term that blocks--for commentators on both the right and the left--serious engagement with the contemporary cosmopolitan ideal of a nonuniversalist discourse of human rights.

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