I shall here examine aspects of Herbert Marcuse's recent work in the context of a more general examination and critique of con? temporary western Marxism. In this sense, I propose to treat Marcuse as the harbinger of a new perspective in the Marxist tradition, as well as one of the most articulate expositors of the "old" western Marxism, buried once and for all in the decade of the 1960s. My ar...

Dædalus Summer 2008 ‘Cosmopolitanism’ is not–or not yet –the name of a determinate political philosophy. Although many contemporary theorists have put forward views that they describe as cosmopolitan, there is little agreement among them about the central elements of a cosmopolitan position. Almost nobody advocates the development of the kind of global state that would give the idea of ‘world c...

This paper critically examines ‘everyday’ cosmopolitanist approaches to migrants’ social relationships to call for a more nuanced understanding of how ethnicity may inform cosmopolitan ties and aspirations. Research on migrants’ everyday cosmopolitanism tends to either focus on individuals’ engagement with ethnic difference, or highlight commonalities that unite people across ethnic boundaries,...

The cosmopolitanism paradigm in the biogeography of freshwater invertebrates is currently being replaced by non-cosmopolitanism or continental endemism. Benthic water fleas (Cladocera) from the family Chydoridae were the first group of freshwater invertebrates for which non-cosmopolitanism and cryptic diversity was substantiated by morphological studies. Yet, little is known about genetic diffe...

In his 1795 essay ‘Toward Perpetual Peace’ the East-Prussian university metaphysician Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) named ‘Hugo Grotius, Pufendorf, Vattel’ as the ‘miserable comforters’ of the law of nations. This was a bon mot that became celebrated retrospectively, with the late-twentieth-century reception of Kant’s cosmopolitanism in political philosophy and international relations theory. In fo...

How can we conceive of global culture as an entity without playing unity and diversity off one another? The diversity of interconnected cultures on a bounded planet requires shared orientations. Thus, the conceptualization of a cosmopolitan humanism is an urgent project for humanity. Particularly, it is of urgent necessity that we determine what a version of cosmopolitan humanism looks like tha...

The application of Marxist analysis in accounting has been seriously hampered by an economistic specter, promulgated even by those who profess to be " Marxists ". One consequence for accounting research has been a regression into culturalist, linguistic, and relativistic analysis, that putatively eschew the " Grand Narratives " of critical social analysis. Using two recent contributions to the ...