Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress
Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress
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感受全球化：困境中的国际主义
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1994
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Bruce Robbins
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Bruce Robbins
全球文化仅仅是资本主义全球化的一种苍白和邪恶的反映吗？布鲁斯·罗宾斯在《感受全球》一书中回答了这个问题和其他问题，这是一本关于民族主义、文化主义和知识分子在全球化时代的作用的重要文献。在他以前的工作的基础上，罗宾斯在这里讨论了国际人权状况的问题。罗宾斯的国际主义概念不仅是由全球人权政策的必要性驱动的，而且是由对跨国文化的理解驱动的，因此将实际的政策制定与文化政治联系起来，而不以牺牲任何一方为代价。换句话说，罗宾斯的文化批评给我们提供的不仅仅是对文化如何“塑造我们的生活”的理解。相反，罗宾斯表明，特别是在他对玛莎·努斯鲍姆、理查德·罗蒂、苏珊·桑塔格、迈克尔·沃尔泽和其他人的讨论中，“文化”本身如何成为一个术语，对右翼和左翼的评论家来说，它阻碍了与当代世界主义理想的非普遍主义人权话语的严肃接触。《感受全球》将“世界主义”本身从其含义中拯救出来，即悠闲的个人不忠于任何人，愿意随意品尝所有文化，它提出了一种令人信服的方式来思考知识分子在新世界秩序中的地位非常不确定的时候的道德义务。
Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization. Building on his previous work, Robbins here takes up the question of the status of international human rights. Robbins' conception of internationalism is driven not only by the imperatives of global human rights policy, but by an understanding of transnational cultures, thus linking practical policy making to cultural politics at the expense of neither. Robbins' cultural criticism, in other words, affords us much more than an understanding of how culture "shapes our lives." Instead, Robbins shows, particularly in his discussions of Martha Nussbaum, Richard Rorty, Susan Sontag, Michael Walzer and others, how "culture" itself has become a term that blocks-for commentators on both the right and the left-serious engagement with the contemporary cosmopolitan ideal of a nonuniversalist discourse of human rights. Rescuing "cosmopolitanism" itself from its connotations of leisured individuals loyal to no one and willing to sample all cultures at will, Feeling Global presents a compelling way to think about the ethical obligations of intellectuals at a time when their place in the new world order is profoundly uncertain.