@article{648407,
      recid = {648407},
      author = {Commissiong, Anand Bertrand.},
      title = {Cosmopolitanism in modernity : human dignity in a global  age /},
      publisher = {Lexington Books,},
      address = {Lanham, Md. :},
      pages = {viii, 236 p. ;},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"At the close of the twentieth century, cosmopolitanism  emerged as an important source of ideas for approaching the  current challenges and opportunities of the intensifying  global interconnections and socioeconomic disparities  within and across borders. Anand Bertrand Commissiong  analyzes the contributions of theorists seeking  cosmopolitan solutions to struggles for human happiness and  dignity. He focuses on the ways in which the ideal has been  forced to adapt, by accepting its limitations, as it  maintains its fundamental insistence on the potential of  universal human community that simultaneously and  constitutively encompasses difference. He examines a  combination of strategies specifically addressing  individual, communal, and intercommunal levels of human  interaction, which he argues are the most productive ways  forward. Commissiong recommends nonimperialist,  accountable, coalitional strategies that set the stage for  a different understanding of human beings in our  contemporary globalizing world by offering a broad approach  that can form coalitions with ideals beyond Western  traditions, such as satyagraha, in order to conceive of  dynamic human individuality and community that stretches  beyond local boundaries. Commissiong makes a powerful  argument for a new type of cosmopolitanism that is vital to  the establishment of a truly just human existence at  institutional, communal, and individual levels."--p. [4] of  cover.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/648407},
}