Non-Cosmopolitan Universalism: On Armitage's Foundations of International Political Thought |
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Authors: | Duncan Ivison |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia duncan.ivison@sydney.edu.au |
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Abstract: | SummaryIn Foundations of Modern International Thought, David Armitage provides a genealogy of the multiple foundations of international political thought. But he also enables political theorists to reflect on the nature of the pluralisation of our concepts: that is, the way various components come together (or apart) in particular circumstances to form a concept that either becomes dominant or is rendered to the margins. Armitage claims that concepts can ‘never entirely escape their origins’. In this paper I explore this claim from the perspective of contemporary debates about the nature of cosmopolitan political thought. |
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Keywords: | Global justice rights universalism cosmopolitanism indigenous peoples citizenship human rights |
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