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In current debates, the term "cosmopolitanism" often remains quite vague and leads to sweeping generalizations. this book looks at the notion from a decidedly historical perspective, trying to give depth and texture to the concept.
*Introduction *Vitoria, Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel: accomplices of European colonialism and exploitation, or true cosmopolitans? *British Enlightenment: the triumph of commercial cosmopolitanism *Kant and the 'miserable comforters': contractual cosmopolitanism *Late eighteenth-century international legal theory: from cosmopolis to the idea of Europe *Immigration, rights and the global community: Pufendorf, Vattel, Bluntschli and Verdross *Conclusion

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	15 avril 2011
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9780708323687
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Political Philosophy Now

Imperfect Cosmopolis

Studies in the History of International Legal Theory and Cosmopolitan Ideas

Georg Cavallar

University of Wales Press

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Chief Editor of the Series: Howard Williams, Aberystwyth University, Wales

Associate Editors: WolfgangKersting,UniversityofKiel,Germany Steven B. Smith, Yale University, USA Peter Nicholson, University of York, England RenatoCristi,WilfridLaurierUniversity,Waterloo,Canada

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p o l i t i c a l p h i l o s o p h y n o w

Imperfect Cosmopolis Studies in the History of International Legal Theory and Cosmopolitan Ideas

GeOrg càvàLLàr

UniVERsity oF walEs pREss•caRdiFF •2011

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ISBN 978-0-7083-2367-0 (hardback) 978-0-7083-2382-3 (paperback) e-ISBN 978-0-7083-2368-7

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Contents

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Vitoria, Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel: Accomplices of European Colonialism and Exploitation, or True Cosmopolitans?

3 British Enlightenment: the Triumph of Commercial Cosmopolitanism

4 Kant and the ‘Miserable Comforters’: Contractual Cosmopolitanism

5 Late Eighteenth-century International Legal Theory: fromCosmopolisto the Idea of Europe

6 Immigration, Rights and the Global Community: Pufendorf, Vattel, Bluntschli and Verdross

7 Conclusion

Notes

Select Bibliography

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Acknowledgements

This book grew out of several papers I delivered at various confer-ences over the last three years, and articles I published in different journals. Above all, I want to thank my wife Angelika for her almost stoic indifference when I was continuously absent-minded, especially during shared meals, conversations, and whenever she had some-thing important to tell me. With kind amusement, she allowed me to work on this book which, in her opinion, has one major disadvan-tage: it is not going to make me rich. I am grateful to our children Clemens, Antonia and Valentina for tons of hugs, kisses, and laugh-ter. The Stoics conceived humans as surrounded by a series of con-centric circles, one of them being one’s immediate family. I realized the truth hidden in Edmund Burke’s famous statement that affec-tions begin at home, and that we should not forget to ‘love the little platoon we belong to in society’, as it is ‘the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love . . . to mankind.’ I am indebted to many people for their help and continuous sup-port, sometimes for years, especially to Sharon Anderson-Gold, Gideon Baker, Moritz Csáky, Lisa Ellis, Bardo Fassbender, Jörg Fisch, Pauline Kleingeld, Chris Laursen, Rebecka Lettevall, Herta Nagl-Docekal, August Reinisch, Karl-Heinz Ribisch, Garrett W. Sheldon and, above all, Howard Williams. I am grateful to Uni-versity of Wales Press and their staff for their helpful and patient supervising of this book project. Several chapters are based on previous papers and articles: Chapter 2 was published in theJournal of the History of Interna-tional Law, 10 (2008), 181–209. Chapter 3 is a modified version of a paper delivered at a conference in Frankfurt am Main, and subsequently published in German.‘Late eighteenth-century inter-national legal theory’ grew out of a conference at Tours, October 2007.Chapter 6 is based on ‘Immigration and sovereignty. Nor-mative approaches in the history of international legal theory (Pufendorf – Vattel – Bluntschli – Verdross)’, published inAustrian

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Review of International and European Law, 11 (2006), 3–22, and presented at a conference in Tilburg, The Netherlands, May 2007. I am fully aware of the fact that a book like this has its limita-tions. The range of publications I have consulted is limited, includ-ing only relevant ones in English and German. As English is not my native tongue, I should like to ask my readers’ forgiveness, still hoping that I have succeeded in presenting my ideas clearly and intelligibly in spite of this fact. In any case, I trust that this book is a convincing example of what in the first chapter I will call intel-lectual cosmopolitanism, and that my readers will be able to feel my fascination with the intellectually vibrant and fascinating eight-eenth century.