Cosmopolitanism: Educational, Philosophical and Historical Perspectives

Acknowledgements.- 1. Editor's Introduction.- Part One: Antiquity and Modernity.- 2. Cosmópolis or koinópolis - what's the difference?.- 3. Human Nature, Democracy and the United States of Europe - Gunnar Landtman (1878 - 1940) on United Europe.- 4. The Idea of Europe in the "Age of Ideologies" (1929-1939): the importance of a forgotten issue.- Part Two: Patriotic Commitment and Cosmopolitan Obligation.- 5. The Love of Country in Education. Questioning the meaning of a patriotic education.- 6. Kant's Cosmopolitan Patriotism and Walt Whitman's Pedagogy in "A Passage to India.".- 7. The Cosmopolitan Idea of Global Distributive Justice.- Part Three: Cosmopolitan Educational Challenges and Responses.- 8. Cosmopolitanism and Education: Of Philosophy and the Teaching of Philosophy.- 9. Educational cosmopolitanism: a performative attitude and an institutional requirement.- 10. Reimagining European citizenship: an educational account from a cosmopolitan perspective.- 11. Europe and the post colony: possibilities for cosmopolitanism.- Part Four: The Many Faces of the Philosophical Tasks Confronting Cosmopolitanism.- 12. Alain Badiou on political education.- 13. A Speculative Vital Materialist Approach to Cosmopolitanism.- 14. 'We refugees': biopower, cosmopolitanism and hospitality. Between camps and encampments'.- 15. What is Universal? Laclau's Ontological Rhetorics and Collective Identity.- 16. Coda - Concentric and Eccentric Cosmopolitanisms.