Book Review: Mitchell Aboulafia – Transcendence: On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism

One might look at the number of titles addressed to this issue as a supply glut. Or one might recognize the steady stream of attempts to address these matters as a reliable indicator of the great importance of this problematic for us today. On the latter view, it is hard to imagine a way in which one might reasonably defend the claim that too many philosophers are addressing themselves to this difficulty. On the contrary, we need more works of this kind, and now more than ever.

Taking this latter view, it is easy to recognize the importance of the project mapped out by Mitchell Aboulafia’s latest offering, Transcendence: On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism. Aboulafia clearly states at the outset his three primary goals.

via Mitchell Aboulafia – Transcendence: On Self-Determination and Cosmopolitanism – Reviewed by Colin Koopman, University of Oregon – Philosophical Reviews – University of Notre Dame.