Fred Dallmayr
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813141916
- eISBN:
- 9780813142364
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813141916.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
In Being in the World: Dialogue and Cosmopolis, noted political theorist Fred Dallmayr explores the world’s transition from a traditional Westphalian system of states to today’s interlocking ...
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In Being in the World: Dialogue and Cosmopolis, noted political theorist Fred Dallmayr explores the world’s transition from a traditional Westphalian system of states to today’s interlocking cosmopolis. Drawing upon biblical literature, as well as ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle and current scholars such as Heidegger, Gadamer, and Raimon Panikkar, this manuscript delves into the importance of what Dallmayr calls “ethical-political engagement.” Dallmayr asserts that traditional concepts of individual and national identity, as well as perceived relationships between the self and others, are undergoing profound change. Every town has become a cosmopolis—an international city—affecting the way that nations conceptualize the relationship between general order and political practice. Rather than lamenting current problems, he suggests ways to successfully address them, through civic education and global citizenship. He argues that what is most needed is a politics of the common good, which requires the cultivation of public ethics, open dialogue, and civic responsibility. The book engages varied philosophical traditions in an original conversation about globalization and our world today.Less
In Being in the World: Dialogue and Cosmopolis, noted political theorist Fred Dallmayr explores the world’s transition from a traditional Westphalian system of states to today’s interlocking cosmopolis. Drawing upon biblical literature, as well as ancient philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle and current scholars such as Heidegger, Gadamer, and Raimon Panikkar, this manuscript delves into the importance of what Dallmayr calls “ethical-political engagement.” Dallmayr asserts that traditional concepts of individual and national identity, as well as perceived relationships between the self and others, are undergoing profound change. Every town has become a cosmopolis—an international city—affecting the way that nations conceptualize the relationship between general order and political practice. Rather than lamenting current problems, he suggests ways to successfully address them, through civic education and global citizenship. He argues that what is most needed is a politics of the common good, which requires the cultivation of public ethics, open dialogue, and civic responsibility. The book engages varied philosophical traditions in an original conversation about globalization and our world today.
Michael Naas
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823229581
- eISBN:
- 9780823235162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823229581.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Language
This chapter uses Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis to explain ideas enclosed in Derrida's work about identity and autoimmunity. Cosmopolis illustrates what Derrida argued in many ...
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This chapter uses Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis to explain ideas enclosed in Derrida's work about identity and autoimmunity. Cosmopolis illustrates what Derrida argued in many texts, namely, the essential self-destruction or autoimmunity of every auto as a self-affirming identity. The autos at the center of DeLillo's novel relate to the automobile, in this sense, a super-stretch limousine.Less
This chapter uses Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis to explain ideas enclosed in Derrida's work about identity and autoimmunity. Cosmopolis illustrates what Derrida argued in many texts, namely, the essential self-destruction or autoimmunity of every auto as a self-affirming identity. The autos at the center of DeLillo's novel relate to the automobile, in this sense, a super-stretch limousine.
Fred Dallmayr
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813141916
- eISBN:
- 9780813142364
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813141916.003.0013
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Referencing the many dangers facing vigilantes opposing autocracy in the Muslim world today, Dallmayr explores how religion is strongly rooted in most Muslim countries. Chapter twelve commemorates ...
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Referencing the many dangers facing vigilantes opposing autocracy in the Muslim world today, Dallmayr explores how religion is strongly rooted in most Muslim countries. Chapter twelve commemorates two leading Muslim philosophers and intellectuals—the Egyptian Nasr Abu Zayd and the Moroccan Mohammed al-Jabri—who both passed away in 2010. In different ways, both sought to vindicate the right of free interpretation of scriptures as a gateway toward a more democratic way of life. Dallmayr asserts that when joined by other intellectuals in other parts of the world, the examples of these thinkers can pave the way toward a generously tolerant, dialogical, and immanent-transcendent cosmopolis.Less
Referencing the many dangers facing vigilantes opposing autocracy in the Muslim world today, Dallmayr explores how religion is strongly rooted in most Muslim countries. Chapter twelve commemorates two leading Muslim philosophers and intellectuals—the Egyptian Nasr Abu Zayd and the Moroccan Mohammed al-Jabri—who both passed away in 2010. In different ways, both sought to vindicate the right of free interpretation of scriptures as a gateway toward a more democratic way of life. Dallmayr asserts that when joined by other intellectuals in other parts of the world, the examples of these thinkers can pave the way toward a generously tolerant, dialogical, and immanent-transcendent cosmopolis.
William Desmond
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231178761
- eISBN:
- 9780231543002
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231178761.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Considers our being religious as closest to the fecund matrix of significance in relation to what is often called our sense of the “whole,” or our being in the between. The intimate universal is ...
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Considers our being religious as closest to the fecund matrix of significance in relation to what is often called our sense of the “whole,” or our being in the between. The intimate universal is addressed in terms of the contrast of cosmopolis and ghetto as two possibilities reflecting responses to the frequently posed question as to what comes after modernity. Cosmopolis and ghetto might be taken as emblematic of two fundamental orientations to the universal and the intimate, the first suggesting a universality beyond particularity, the second a particularity intractable to subsumption into the universal. Desmond argues against an “either/or” between the universal and the intimate, as seems suggested by this contrast. In connection with a certain understanding of our being religious, the intimate universal can be held to address the rightful claims of singularity and universality.Less
Considers our being religious as closest to the fecund matrix of significance in relation to what is often called our sense of the “whole,” or our being in the between. The intimate universal is addressed in terms of the contrast of cosmopolis and ghetto as two possibilities reflecting responses to the frequently posed question as to what comes after modernity. Cosmopolis and ghetto might be taken as emblematic of two fundamental orientations to the universal and the intimate, the first suggesting a universality beyond particularity, the second a particularity intractable to subsumption into the universal. Desmond argues against an “either/or” between the universal and the intimate, as seems suggested by this contrast. In connection with a certain understanding of our being religious, the intimate universal can be held to address the rightful claims of singularity and universality.
Richard Fox
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781501725340
- eISBN:
- 9781501725364
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501725340.003.0008
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
The eighth chapter concludes by recapitulating the argument and drawing out its wider implications for the study of religion, script and writing in Southeast Asia and beyond. Three key unresolved ...
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The eighth chapter concludes by recapitulating the argument and drawing out its wider implications for the study of religion, script and writing in Southeast Asia and beyond. Three key unresolved issues are also addressed: whether it is ultimately coherent to posit practice as an ‘object of study’; whether taking purpose and presupposition as ‘prologues to action’ entails a residual ethnocentrism; and, finally, to what extent the book’s findings may suggest limitations to Pollock's conception of ‘the Sanskrit cosmopolis’.Less
The eighth chapter concludes by recapitulating the argument and drawing out its wider implications for the study of religion, script and writing in Southeast Asia and beyond. Three key unresolved issues are also addressed: whether it is ultimately coherent to posit practice as an ‘object of study’; whether taking purpose and presupposition as ‘prologues to action’ entails a residual ethnocentrism; and, finally, to what extent the book’s findings may suggest limitations to Pollock's conception of ‘the Sanskrit cosmopolis’.
Sharon V. Betcher
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823253906
- eISBN:
- 9780823260935
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823253906.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Rapidly emergent planetary urbanism presents humans with new challenges, such as learning to form attachments amid formerly colonially inflected difference. The hope of “cosmopolis” names the dream ...
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Rapidly emergent planetary urbanism presents humans with new challenges, such as learning to form attachments amid formerly colonially inflected difference. The hope of “cosmopolis” names the dream of cultivating such differences, weaving them into common destiny. If social precarity nonetheless opens out in respect to the affective commons of social flesh, the fact that we are always ever affectively vulnerable to each other, then religious philosophies, which develop social muscles such as freedom from reactivity, may enable seculars— those who choose to live in the city on behalf of the city— to navigate urbanism by way of alternative values and attitudes that challenge materialism and isolation. As politics begins with the intercorporeal, this theological crip/tography, this cartography employing “disability” as a hermeneutic lens for engaging cities’ affective ruptures and exclusions, maps lines of force or resistance within the city in the hope of ultimately cultivating corporeal generosity and mutual forbearance.Less
Rapidly emergent planetary urbanism presents humans with new challenges, such as learning to form attachments amid formerly colonially inflected difference. The hope of “cosmopolis” names the dream of cultivating such differences, weaving them into common destiny. If social precarity nonetheless opens out in respect to the affective commons of social flesh, the fact that we are always ever affectively vulnerable to each other, then religious philosophies, which develop social muscles such as freedom from reactivity, may enable seculars— those who choose to live in the city on behalf of the city— to navigate urbanism by way of alternative values and attitudes that challenge materialism and isolation. As politics begins with the intercorporeal, this theological crip/tography, this cartography employing “disability” as a hermeneutic lens for engaging cities’ affective ruptures and exclusions, maps lines of force or resistance within the city in the hope of ultimately cultivating corporeal generosity and mutual forbearance.
