Citizenship, Human Rights and Identity: Prospects of a Liberal Cosmopolitan Order
Citizenship, Human Rights and Identity: Prospects of a Liberal Cosmopolitan Order

Author(s): Michael A. Peters
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Sociology, Political economy, Social Theory, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: citizenship; human rights; identity; culture; freedom; liberal values; cosmopolitan order; ethics; education;
Summary/Abstract: This book focuses on the notion of citizenship in relation to the notions of human rights, identity and culture. It poses the question of the prospects of a liberal cosmopolitan order dealing with a number of interrelated themes: ethics, emancipation and what Derrida calls the “new humanities;” identity, war and crimes against humanity; citizenship, and education rights within a knowledge economy; colonization, development and peace; changing notions of democracy within an information society; and culture, difference and otherness. These are the themes that make problematic aspects of the liberal cosmopolitan order. One of the main tropes connecting these themes is how the primary liberal values of freedom, emancipation and equality work out in a globalized world. The interrelationship of these values are problematized in different settings as they relate to issues of global world order with a focus on the adaptability of the liberal framework of values and law in creating a genuine cosmopolitan order.

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