{"product_id":"towards-a-genealogy-of-cosmopolitan-detlef-von-daniels-9781399550758","title":"Towards a Genealogy of Cosmopolitan Thought: Before and Beyond Liberalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiberalism, with cosmopolitanism as its intellectual spearhead, seems to be in retreat, while illiberal and populist narratives have come to dominate the digital space. In this book, Detlef von Daniels suggests that this crisis can be addressed through historically situated self-reflection. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt begins by noting that cosmopolitan ideas have antecedents going back to the pre-Platonic Sophists. In this light, Plato emerges as the first anti-cosmopolitan philosopher. Unsurprisingly, Plato again plays an important role in today's authoritarian discourses. Kant's political philosophy is then read as a fundamental reorientation of philosophy, though one whose dialectics Kant himself had already discerned. Against Heidegger's appropriation of both antiquity and Kant, Kelsen's theory of law emerges as a sober antidote that gives rise to two models of post-foundational thought. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e​​​​​​​Framed by the voices of Sappho and Hölderlin, the book finally reveals a poetic mode of communication across space and time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Detlef Von Daniels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399550756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399550758\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d","brand":"Detlef Von Daniels","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48874516939007,"sku":"9781399550758","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/towards-a-genealogy-of-cosmopolitan-detlef-von-daniels-9781399550758","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}