Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

David Harvey

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June, 2009
Cloth, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14846-7
$27.50 / £19.00

Preface

Prologue

Part One: Universal Values

1. Kant's Anthropology and Geography

2. The Postcolonial Critique of Liberal Cosmopolitanism

3. The Flat World of Neoliberal Utopianism

4. The New Cosmopolitans

5. The Banality of Geographical Evils

Part Two: Geographical Knowledges

6. Geographical Reason

7. Spacetime and the World

8. Places, Regions, Territories

9. The Nature of Environment

Epilogue: Geographical Theory and the Ruses of Geographical Reason

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Political Theory

Series

• Wellek Library Lectures

About the Author

David Harvey is considered to be one of the world's leading geographers and social theorists. Currently director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, he previously held professorial positions at Johns Hopkins University and Oxford University. He is the author of fifteen books, ranging from studies in political economy and cultural change to works on urbanization, uneven geographical development, imperialism, and neoliberalism. His works are translated into more than a dozen languages, including Arabic and Chinese.

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