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Theories of the stranger : debates on cosmopolitanism, identity and cross-cultural encounters /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marotta, Vince (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2017]
Series:Routledge studies in social and political thought.
Subjects:
Group identity.
Multiculturalism.
Human beings.
Technology > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Theories of the stranger
  • The death of the "classical stranger"
  • Georg Simmel, the stranger and the sociology of knowledge
  • Civilisation, culture and the "marginal man"
  • The hybrid of modernity
  • The cosmopolitan stranger : Mark II
  • The multicultural civil sphere and the universality of binary codes
  • The cyborg stranger and posthumanism
  • Conclusion: intercultural knowledge and the "professional stranger".