Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-209) and index.
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Internationalism in distress -- Some versions of U.S. internationalism -- The weird heights: imperial eyes, universality, and human rights -- Feeling global: John Berger and experience -- Upward mobility in the postcolonial era: Kincaid, Mukherjee, and the cosmopolitan au pair -- Secularism, elitism, progress, and other transgressions: on Edward Said's "Voyage in" -- Sad stories in the international public sphere: Richard Rorty on culture and human rights -- Root, root, root: Martha Nussbaum meets the home team.
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Whether global culture is merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization is among the questions addressed in this text on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.