Inhuman Conditions

On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights

Pheng Cheah

    Introduction: Globalization and the Inhuman

    I. Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason

    1. The Cosmopolitical--Today

    2. Postnational Light

    3. Given Culture: Rethinking Cosmopolitical Freedom in Transnationalism

    4. Chinese Cosmopolitanism in Two Senses and Postcolonial National Memory

    II. Human Rights and the Inhuman

    5. Posit(ion)ing Human Rights in the Current Global

    Conjuncture

    6. "Bringing into the Home a Stranger Far More Foreign":
    Human Rights and the Global Trade in Domestic Labor

    7. Humanity within the Field of Instrumentality

    Notes

    Index

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Pheng Cheah is Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley.