Reviews for Cosmopolitan Evolution

The average rating for Cosmopolitan Evolution based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-09-11 00:00:00 Michael Bornemann This book is OK. It delivers what it says on the tin. The book moves from the 'medieval imagination' of representative universalism through the the 18th century configuration of individualism. The pendulum swing from the universal to the particular is well captured. Very specific slices of literature in the history of ideas were selected to make this case. There is a dismissal of contemporary theorizing. Even Derrida is inappropriate for this conversation. Therefore, the nesting of this book into new theorizing of cosmopolitanism is neither neat nor comfortable. A singular argument. Well delivered.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-04-20 00:00:00 Shawn Davis Malia's argument starts out really strong, and his analysis of the Atlantic Revolutions (England, America, France) is brilliant, but his argument gets significantly weaker when he tries to incorporate the Russian Revolution of 1917. Still an interesting read, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed.