Martha Nussbaum and the American Debate on Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism
Journal title PARADIGMI
Author/s Angela Taraborrelli
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2010/2
Language Italian Pages 12 P. 153-164 File size 278 KB
DOI 10.3280/PARA2010-002012
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The American debate between "cosmopolitans" and "patriots" has highlighted a divergence between two different ways of pursuing democracy and social justice. The author reconstructs the evolution of M. Nussbaum’s cosmopolitan thought, with the aim at demonstrating how the interest for global social justice and the consequent elaboration of the normative political theory of capabilities approach have induced her to modify her cosmopolitan conception and its epistemological function. This article explains why Nussbaum, starting from a radical version of cosmopolitanism, and moving afterwards to a position of "limited patriotism", eventually lands on a political theory in which she goes as far as rejecting the attribute "cosmopolitan".
Keywords: Capabilities approach, Cosmopolitanism. Democratic Citizenship, Nussbaum, Political Philosophy, Social justice.
Angela Taraborrelli, Martha Nussbaum e il dibattito americano su cosmopolitismo e patriottismo in "PARADIGMI" 2/2010, pp 153-164, DOI: 10.3280/PARA2010-002012