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Draws on Marx and the first-generation Frankfurt School to make the case that cosmopolitanism must become a postcapitalist political theory.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction From Here to There
  • Thinking the World Anew in Political Theory
  • Cosmopolitanisms and Responses to Globalization
  • Psychological Capitalism and the Capitalistic Mentality
  • The Dialectic of Exclusion and Inclusion
  • Some Notes on Method, Style, and Audience
  • Chapter by Chapter Breakdown
• Chapter 1 Assuming the Status Quo: Cosmopolitanism Takes on Capitalism
  • Liberal (or “Mainstream”) Cosmopolitanism
    • Beitz and the Foundations of International Justice
    • Thomas Pogge Between the Poverty of Justice and the Injustice of Poverty
    • David Held and Cosmopolitanism as Global Social Democracy
  • Critical (Theoretical) Cosmopolitanism: Habermas and the Habermasians
    • Habermas and Lifeworld Cosmopolitanism
    • Benhabib and the Cosmopolitan Right to Hospitality
    • Linklater and the Mitigation of Harm through Cosmopolitan Dialogic Communities
    • Eckersley’s Ecological Cosmopolitan Democracy
  • “Radical” Cosmopolitanisms
    • Ingram on Cosmopolitanism as Radical Democratization
    • Pheng Cheah and the (Ir)Reconciliation of Inhumanity with Cosmopolitan Progress
    • Mann and Wainwright’s Climate X(eno)-Cosmopolitics
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 2 The Capitalistic Mentality: Between Base and Superstructure
  • The Concept of Mentality
  • Capitalism in General: Exorcising Market-based Understandings
  • Adorno and the Amnesia of Commodification
  • Fromm and the Insanity of Capitalism
  • The Capitalistic Mentality: A Critical-Theoretical Reconciliation
  • The Capitalistic Mentality in Everyday Life: Provocations
  • Conclusion: Globalizing the Capitalistic Mentality
• Chapter 3 Cosmopolitanism and the Dialectical Intervention of the Capitalistic Mentality
  • Negating Mainstream (Liberal-Social Democratic) Cosmopolitanism
  • Capital’s Critique of “Critical” Cosmopolitanism
  • Radicalizing “Radical” Cosmopolitanism
  • Conclusion
• Chapter 4 Cosmopolitanism and Socialist Strategy: Class Struggle, Radical Reform, and Postcapitalism
  • Back to the Future: Toward a Dialectical-Cosmopolitan Reading of Neo-/Post-Marxism
  • Radical Reform as Radical Realism: The Contours of Reconciling Cosmopolitanism and Marxism
  • Conclusion
• Conclusion Toward a Postcapitalistic Mentality
  • Overview
  • Postcapitalistic Mentality
  • “Final” Thoughts
• Afterword
• Notes
• References
• Index