Achieving Our World

In an age marked by global hegemony and festering civilization clashes Fred Dallmayr's Achieving Our World charts a path toward a cosmopolitan democracy respectful of local differences. Dallmayr draws upon and develops insights from a number of fields: political theory the study of international politics recent Continental philosophy and an array of critical cultural disciplines to illustrate and elucidate his thesis. In Achieving Our World Dallmayr contends that a genuinely global and plural democracy and 'civic culture' is the only viable and promising path for humankind in the new millennium.