Mitchell Aboulafia, Transcendence. On self-determination and Cosmopolitanism [Book Review]

European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 4 (1):303-307 (2012)
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Mitchell Aboulafia’s new book pursues previous inquiries carried forth by the author on the notion of Cosmopolitanism. Whereas so far Aboulafia had mostly developed this notion with reference to Mead, in this book he weaves together the different strands of a Euro-American philosophical conception of cosmopolitanism, taken to be the core of a moral, social, and political vision centered around the modern ideas of autonomy and of individual and collective self-realization. Aboulafia’s attempt...

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