Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century - Rilegato

Steiner, Enit Karafili

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 139952495X ISBN 13: 9781399524957

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2025

Riassunto

Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century traces expansions of Classical cosmopolitanism in long-eighteenth-century Britain to shows how acts of inclusion from cosmopolitan viewpoints sought to cope with British imperialism, war, social injustice, slavery, and technologies of self- and societal improvement, concerns that survive to this day. The Classical inheritance uncovered here yields more precise contouring of cosmopolitanism and of the eighteenth-century innovations that prefigure postcolonial debates. Additionally, considerations of style fill a lacuna in eighteenth-century literary studies, where cosmopolitanism remains a rather under-explored hermeneutical tool. Inviting readers to appreciate cosmopolitanism as a developing rather than as a static and completed philosophy, this study refutes an objection that circulated in the eighteenth century and is still present today, namely, cosmopolitanism’s disdain for local values.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 139952495X
• ISBN 13: 9781399524957
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 231
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