Publication

2007-05-30 - Pickering & Chatto

Language

English

Word Count

69,750 words, Guess

Page Count

279 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 6 more

Classifications

  • LCCJZ1308
  • LCCJZ1308 .S36 2007
  • LCCJZ1308 .S36 2007eb
and 1 more
  • LCCHN380 Z9 M6 2007

Description

"Michael Scrivener examines the new internationalism which emerged in Europe during the Enlightenment. Critical of and distanced from his or her nation and class, the cosmopolitan intellectual formed an identity within a supranational community. A movement that started in elite salons moved to coffee-houses and public bars as the polity expanded to global dimensions." "The cosmopolitan ideal was to collapse, however, in the face of nationalisms which developed during the revolutionary wars in Europe. In his final chapter, Scrivener looks at the 'second generation' Romantics who struggled against nationalism at the moment it was triumphing. This is the first scholarly study of cosmopolitanism to take into account recent feminist and post-colonial critiques of the Enlightenment. Scrivener offers cosmopolitanism as a solution to contemporary struggles to reach a post-national politicalidentity."--BOOK JACKET.

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