(Ebook) Thinking Differently About Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Eccentricity, and the Globalized World by Marianna Papastephanou ISBN 9781612050799, 1612050794

(Ebook) Thinking Differently About Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Eccentricity, and the Globalized World by Marianna Papastephanou ISBN 9781612050799, 1612050794

Cosmopolitanism and relevant notions—that is, notionsthat appear either as synonymous or allied with, or even inimical to,cosmopolitanism (e.g., globalization, universalism, multiculturalism,citizenship, patriotism, nationalism)—are widely discussed in philoso-phy of education and, more generally, in educational studies. There hasbeen a vast literature on such topics, deriving from diverse and oftencontradictory accounts of what cosmopolitanism is about. The diversityof sources, the complexity of associated themes, and the richnessof diverging perspectives are often experienced as disconcerting bymany readers and researchers, who feel unable to locate in most ofthe available theoretical production an incentive for a discussionin fresh terms of what cosmopolitanism might be; of what related,alternative, or even opposed conceptions might involve; and of whycosmopolitanism might constitute an educational ideal. Therefore, theabundance and proliferation of material related to cosmopolitanisminvites conceptual discussion and requires some work in the directionof crucial clarifications.