Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
S., when it's clear to any objective bystander that Republicans are the party of big business and corporations. Many claim that those economically disadvantage folk who vote Republican are voting against their own self-interests, opting to elect officials who will lobby against collective bargaining and union benefits. Nevertheless, and despite overwhelming evidence to support that theory, poor people, working class people continue to vote Republican. The reasons for this phenomenon is that liberal/democratic agenda has certain blind spots when it comes to recognizing the needs of real, working class people. The liberal agenda, the democratic agenda, is a "We know what's best for you" agenda. And many individuals recognize this and rebel against it, even if it's at their own peril.
Likewise, supporters of cosmopolitanism carry an air of "we know what's best for you" type attitude. This is destructive because, as with liberalism, it appears haughty to those who could actually benefit from global harmony and intervention.
So, to recap three major points discussed in Calhoun's article: (a) cosmopolitanism benefits the dominant (not exclusively) (b) cosmopolitanism is often supported by people who have their own particular political, social, and cultural sensibilities (c) it carries with it a "we know what's best for you" type attitude that can be unattractive to would-be converts.
Discussion question #1
Will the world...
One can argue that the television, for example, has become ubiquitous around the world. Yet, the more universal stations (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX) do not have the ratings they once had. In fact, the media landscape is more fractured than ever before. There was a time when there were only 3 channels, now there's 3000. The point is, the more technologically advance and interconnected a society becomes the more time people have to pursue individualistic goals and interests.
Discussion question #1
Calhoun briefly touched on the effect money markets have on cosmopolitanism. But one is curious to know how the recent economic collapse has affected those who seek some sort of global unification?
Obviously the European experiment with the Euro has backfired. Greece, Ireland, Spain are on facing bankruptcy and lack the capacity to print money. If the world were to become more monetarily co-dependent, would this affect their ability to rebound from economic recessions? This questions and more should be addressed in more explicit detail if one is to truly embrace a cosmopolitan framework.
Jane Austin Sense and Sensibility Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, is the story of the lives, loves, and dreams of two sisters. The plot of the story centers on the possibility that both sisters may have to put up with the banality of country life, which was full of gossip superficiality, rather than being loved by the men of their dreams. The distinction between "sense" and "sensibility" is one of
Sensibility Women's Identities Are Determined and Limited by the Expectations of Their Societies Literature written by and about women lends itself very well to feminist interpretative approaches of various kinds. Such approaches often examine the literature of earlier centuries for signs of discontent with or subversive suggestions against aspects of a society in which men have exclusive control of power. Such an approach is especially fruitful to use when examining
SENSIBILITY AND PAUL DE MAN "CONCLUSIONS" Despite the fact that De man was not a trained philosopher his post war theoretical work is majorly concerned with the nature of the subject and the language in addition to the role played by language and subject in the larger epistemological question of how and what one can claim to know. As a scholar in the field of literature, however, he often took
Both types of personas have their drawbacks and benefits. However, because the former is generally associated with the female gender and the latter is traditionally attributed to males, sense is considered to be more desirable than sensibility. Ultimately, as long as both men and women continue to perpetuate gender stereotypes, equality between the sexes will remain impossible. It is important to note that equality does not mean the eradication of
Intellectually my mind was saying: how could this happen in an open and public place with dozens of people walking in the area? There was also a sense of moral anger at the way that social rules and norms were being so openly being flouted. This feeling was strong and related to the physical sense of disgust and distress that I felt at the situation. Reciprocity The above aspects, the physical,
Common Sense as a Formal Rejection of Monarchy America's fight for independence would emerge quite naturally out of the needs of its people to establish a form of governance, of economy and of society reflective of the demands created by the path of development of the colonies. Its people would be assisted in their ascent to this revolt by no small degree of propaganda, which would help to represent the trespasses