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100 1 $aHarvey, David,$d1935-
245 10 $aCosmopolitanism and the geographies of freedom /$cDavid Harvey.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc2009.
300 $ax, 339 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aWellek Library lectures in critical theory
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $apt. 1. Universal values -- Kant's anthropology and geography -- The postcolonial critique of liberal cosmopolitanism -- The flat world of neoliberal utopianism -- The new cosmopolitans -- The banality of geographical evils -- pt. 2. Geographical knowledges -- Geographical reason -- Spacetime and the world -- Places, regions, territories -- The nature of environment -- Epilogue: Geographical theory and the ruses of geographical reason.
520 $a"Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the pursuit of liberty and freedom can lead to violence and repression, undermining our trust in universal theories of liberalism, neoliberalism, and cosmopolitanism.Combining his passions for politics and geography, David Harvey charts a cosmopolitan order more appropriate to an emancipatory form of global governance. Political agendas tend to fail, he argues, because they ignore the complexities of geography. Incorporating geographical knowledge into the formation of social and political policy is therefore a necessary condition for genuine democracy."--Jacket.
650 0 $aGeography$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aCosmopolitanism.
650 0 $aLiberty.
650 0 $aLiberalism.
830 0 $aWellek Library lectures at the University of California, Irvine.
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