附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-209) and index.
Internationalism in distress -- Some versions of U.S. internationalism -- The weird heights: imperial eyes, universality, and human rights -- Feeling global: John Berger and experience -- Upward mobility in the postcolonial era: Kincaid, Mukherjee, and the cosmopolitan au pair -- Secularism, elitism, progress, and other transgressions: on Edward Said's "Voyage in" -- Sad stories in the international public sphere: Richard Rorty on culture and human rights -- Root, root, root: Martha Nussbaum meets the home team.
摘要:Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization. Building on his previous work, Robbins here takes up the question of the status of international human rights. Robbins' conception of internationalism is driven not only by the imperatives of global human rights policy, but by an understanding of transnational cultures, thus linking practical policymaking to cultural politics at the ex.
