Introduction

Abstract

This editor's preface introduces a special issue of Critical Horizons on the theme of “contestatory cosmopolitanism.” After identifying the broad failings of the standard cosmopolitan appeal to global community, it presents the defining features of the “contestatory” alternative and introduces the papers in light of them.

Keywords:

• cosmopolitanism
• global justice
• dialectics
• agonism
• democracy

Acknowledgements

Earlier drafts of the papers by Bohman, Caraus, Fine, Hayden, Rensmann and Rose were presented and discussed on invitation at the “Cosmopolitanism and Conflict” conference held at John Cabot University, Rome, in October 2013. The editor would like to thank Martine Prange, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Leiden University, the administration of John Cabot University and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research for their support in organizing the conference.

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Notes on contributors

Tom Bailey

Tom Bailey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. He works on modern and contemporary ethics and political philosophy. He has published articles and chapters on Kant and Nietzsche, and edited Rawls and Religion (with V. Gentile, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015) and Deprovincializing Habermas: Global Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2013).