Cosmopolitanism in the Americas

by Camilla Fojas

Fojas's book is a study about the aporia between cosmopolitanism as a sign of justice and cosmopolitanism as the consumption and display of international luxury items and cultural production. Turn of the century Pan-American cosmopolitanism described international aesthetic culture and fashion drawn from major world cities, but it was also implicitly political, it held a promise of justice in the acceptance and coexistence of difference. Being cosmopolitan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557533822
• ISBN13: 9781557533821
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.6"