Feeling Global Internationalism in Distress

Name: Feeling Global Internationalism in Distress
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ISBN: 9780814775141

ISBN-10: 0814775144

ISBN-13: 9780814775141

Edition: 1999

Authors: Bruce Robbins

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Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins' responds to this and other questions inFeeling 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…

Book details

Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Internationalism in Distress


Susan Sontag on Bosnia


Global Culture Is Ordinary


The New Nationalism and the End of the Culture Wars



Some Versions of U.S. Internationalism



The Weird Heights: Imperial Eyes, Universality, and Human Rights



Feeling Global: John Berger and Experience



Upward Mobility in the Postcolonial Era: Kincaid, Mukherjee, and the Cosmopolitan Au Pair



Secularism, Elitism, Progress, and other Transgressions: On Edward Said's "Voyage in"



Sad Stories in the International Public Sphere: Richard Rorty on Culture and Human Rights


Global Privacy


Democracy and Redistribution


Human Rights at the United Nations


Toward an Alliance



Root, Root, Root: Martha Nussbaum Meets the Home Team


Cosmopolitanism and Boredom


Rooting and Realism


Two Love Stories: The Home and the World and The English Patient


Afterword


Notes


Index


About the Author