Anand Bertrand Commissiong is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice at West Texas A&M University.

Introduction
Local and Global: Notes from Recent US Elections
"the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world"
The Market Mind-set and the Faith in the Market
Cosmopolitan Ideas in Modernity
Issues of Definition
Part 1: Ancient and Modern Sources and Contexts
1 Ancient and Modern Cosmopolitanisms
Ancient and Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms
Modern and Contemporary Contexts
A Survey of the Varieties of Cosmopolitanism in Modernity
Moral and Political Cosmopolitanism
2 The Rise of Economic Individualism and the Development of the Commercial Community
A Crisis of Conscience: The Crumbling Sacred Canopy and the Changing Sources of Authority
Globalization: The Sheltering Market
The Heart of Empire
Cosmopolitanism vs. Globalization: The Responsibilities of Freedom
Part 2: Contemporary Cosmopolitanisms
3 Martha Nussbaum and the Individual at the Center: Liberties and Capabilities, Theory and Practice
Theory: Stoic Theories of Reason, Association, and Moral Development
Practice: Action and Conflicting Duties
The Capabilities Approach
Universal Values and the Primacy of the Individual
4 Jürgen Habermas and the Individual in Community: Freedom and Responsibility in the Nation-State
"Perpetual Peace": Kant's Cosmopolitan Idea Reconsidered
The Rule of Law and Popular Sovereignty in Modern Democracy
Habermas's Linguistic Turn
Globalization and the Post-National Constellation
Habermas: A Critical Appraisal
5 David Held: Freedom and Accountability Beyond the Nation-State
The Interstate System and Modern Democracy
The Nation-State: Its Uses and Abuses
International Accountability and Enforcement
National and International Public Spheres
Transnational Public Spheres and Transnational Solidarity
Part 3: Restating the Case
6 Cosmopolitan Virtues for a Modern World
Fracturing of the Fatal Circle(s)
Heterogeneity and Solidarity
7 Cosmopolitanism Law
The New New World Order: Unfinished Business
Cosmopolitanism and the Left: The Theory and Practice of Cosmopolitan Law
Stoic Cosmopolitanism Today
8 Conclusion: Our Futures, Together
The One and the Universal
Our Post-National Futures, Unavoidably Side by Side
Bibliography

Cosmopolitanism in Modernity: Human Dignity in a Global Age examines the challenges and solutions in conceptualizing and actualizing human dignity in a global perspective. The book investigates and endorses the contributions of cosmopolitanism toward a dynamic vision of human beings in just communities that can stretch beyond borders of all kind.