TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Citizen of Nowhere' or 'the Point Where Circles Intersect'? Impartialist and Embedded Cosmopolitanisms
AU - Erskine, Toni
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Ethical cosmopolitanism is conventionally taken to be a stance that requires an impartialist point of viewa perspective above and beyond all particular ties and loyalties. Taking seriously the claims of those critics who counter that morality must have a particularist starting-point, this article examines the viability of an alternative understanding of cosmopolitanism: embedded cosmopolitanism. Using moral justifications for patriotism as points of contrast, it presents embedded cosmopolitanism as a position that recognises community membership as being morally constitutive, but challenges the common assumption that communities are necessarily bounded and territorially determinate.
AB - Ethical cosmopolitanism is conventionally taken to be a stance that requires an impartialist point of viewa perspective above and beyond all particular ties and loyalties. Taking seriously the claims of those critics who counter that morality must have a particularist starting-point, this article examines the viability of an alternative understanding of cosmopolitanism: embedded cosmopolitanism. Using moral justifications for patriotism as points of contrast, it presents embedded cosmopolitanism as a position that recognises community membership as being morally constitutive, but challenges the common assumption that communities are necessarily bounded and territorially determinate.
U2 - 10.1017/S0260210502004576
DO - 10.1017/S0260210502004576
M3 - Article
SN - 0260-2105
VL - 28
SP - 457
EP - 478
JO - Review of International Studies
JF - Review of International Studies
IS - 3
ER -