Deep Cosmopolis: Rethinking World Politics and Globalization [Hardcover]

1. Circuits of the Sacred  2. Civilisation with a Capital C  3. Beyond the Frontiers  4. The World Religions  5. Medi?val Mirrors and the Virtuous Outsider  6. Strutting on the Stage of Empires  7. Missionaries, Mystics, and the Melding of Faiths  8. Modernitys Derailments  9. Globalisation and New Landscapes of Power  10. Relearning How to Talk Across Traditions  11. Interreligious Dialogue and Its Limits  12. Homelands and Hospitality  13. World Citizens in the Making  14. Void or Cosmos?

Adam Webb brilliantly explores an alternative path to globalization with dashing originality and stunning erudition. Webb defends a cosmopolitanism that is at once rooted and diverse, culturally rich and historically sensitive. His vision of a deep cosmopolis draws at once on the virtues of local knowledge and the universalist impulse that is embedded within all human cultures, yet resists the homogenized and flattened form of globalization encouraged by an elite class dismissive of local diversity and impatient with the rich complexity of civilizations. Patrick Deneen, University of Notre Dame

Traces an alternative strand of cosmopolitan thinking that cuts across centuries and civilisations, and suggests some important lessons for the contours of globalization in our own time.

Adam K. Webb is Resident Professor of Political Science at the Hopkins-Nanjing Centre, which is one of the two overseas branches of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Too often, observers of globalization take for granted that the common ground across cultures is a thin layer of consumerism and perhaps human rights. If so, then anything deeper and more tralS+