Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom, David Harvey, New York: Columbia University Press, 2009
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The work under review is, in contrast to recent more accessible work by Harvey, such as The Enigma of Capital, a highly condensed survey of a wide range of primarily philosophical investigations (including most notably Kant and Heidegger) relating to issues of cosmopolitanism and globalisation. Harvey emphasises the relevance of historical/geographical analysis neglected by most of the theorists he discusses. Politically he seeks to counterpose an ‘insurgent’ and ‘subaltern’ cosmopolitanism to the liberal version of Beck, Held et al. which dominates current debates. But Harvey’s reliance on an organicist ‘internal relations’ conception of dialectical theory itself requires critique.
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Harvey 2000, p. 55, in an essay on contemporary globalisation, originally drafted back in 1996, which remains one of the best succinct Marxist analyses of that process. The phrase recurs in the book under review, cf. for example Harvey 2009, p. 232.
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Harvey 1996.
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See in particular Harvey 2003 and 2005.
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Friedman 2005.
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Harvey 1982.
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Harvey 2010a.
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Harvey 2010a, pp. 42–3.
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Harvey 2010a, p. 47.
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Harvey 2010a, pp. 47 and 11.
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Harvey 2010a, pp. 121–4.
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Harvey 1996.
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See further Benhabib 2004. Later in the text, however, Harvey quite rightly endorses Benhabib’s critique of both the ‘exclusionary nationalism’ of John Rawls and the communitarian sentiments of Michael Walzer (Harvey 2009, pp. 89–91) – and he might have noted Walzer’s Zionist defence of Israel’s supposedly ‘just’ wars.
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Lefebvre 1991; Smith 1984.
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Hines 2000.
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Eagleton 1997.
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Harvey 1996, p. 186.
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Levins and Lewontin 1985.
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Harvey 1996, p. 253.
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Harvey 1996, pp. 224–6.
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Eagleton 1997.
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Ollman 1992.
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Jessop 2006.
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Harvey 2010a, pp. 121–3.
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Diamond 1997.
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Diamond 1997, pp. 424–5.
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37.
Holloway 2002.
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Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom, David Harvey, New York: Columbia University Press, 2009
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The work under review is, in contrast to recent more accessible work by Harvey, such as The Enigma of Capital, a highly condensed survey of a wide range of primarily philosophical investigations (including most notably Kant and Heidegger) relating to issues of cosmopolitanism and globalisation. Harvey emphasises the relevance of historical/geographical analysis neglected by most of the theorists he discusses. Politically he seeks to counterpose an ‘insurgent’ and ‘subaltern’ cosmopolitanism to the liberal version of Beck, Held et al. which dominates current debates. But Harvey’s reliance on an organicist ‘internal relations’ conception of dialectical theory itself requires critique.
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