Joanna Rozpedowski

The Cosmopolitan Ethos: Foucault on Freedom, Subjectivity, and the Power of Resistance Joanna Rozpedowski

In The Cosmopolitan Ethos, Joanna Rozpedowski examines leading aspects of the liberal cosmopolitan paradigm for the organization of political life in an era of globalization. While relying upon a postmodernist approach, the author interrogates and develops a specifically Foucauldian interpretation of international politics and the emerging multilayered global order. The book aims to show how a close reading of Michel Foucault's insights on power, subjectivity, freedom, resistance, and self-creation can furnish a normative support for the twenty-first century cosmopolitan democracy as well as give salience to the spirit and practice of cosmopolitan citizenship in the world of increasingly displaced loyalties, porous identities, and atrophied socio-political commitments. The analysis should prove especially appealing to political theorists pondering citizenship and governance beyond the statist paradigm.