Abstract
Cosmopolitanism and The Politics of Untethered Loyalty
Highlights
News and media outlets abound with stories of global economic inequality and poverty, the effects of which have stimulated substantial scholarly discussion of the viability of cosmopolitan models of global justice
The good news is that Bruce Robbins succeeds in providing fresh thinking around the question of global justice by exploring it from the standpoint of the ‘well-intentioned beneficiary’ (5)
The beneficiary, in Robbins’ understanding, is the privileged person from the prosperous centre who recognizes that their economic well-being and advantage comes at the expense of—is ‘causally linked to’—the fate of individuals consigned to a distant and less-prosperous periphery
Summary
News and media outlets abound with stories of global economic inequality and poverty, the effects of which have stimulated substantial scholarly discussion of the viability of cosmopolitan models of global justice. The good news is that Bruce Robbins succeeds in providing fresh thinking around the question of global justice by exploring it from the standpoint of the ‘well-intentioned beneficiary’ (5). Robbins’ distinct and novel move is a sustained consideration of the anguish felt by the figure of beneficiary having perceived her or his degree of complicity in global injustice.
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