Arguing that intellectuals must critique bellicose U.S. nationalism, Bruce Robbins advocates cosmopolitanism in its traditional sense, as an elevation of loyalty to the good of humanity as a whole over loyalty to one's own nation.

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Cosmopolitanism, New and Newer: Anthony Appiah 31
2. Noam Chomsky's Golden Rule 47
3. Blaming the System: Immanuel Wallerstein 67
4. The Sweatshop Sublime 93
5. Edward Said and Effort 115
6. Intellectuals in Public, or Elsewhere 137
7. War Without Belief: Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club 157
8. Comparative National Blaming: W. G. Sebald and the Bombing of Germany 173
Notes 191
Bibliography 221
Index 231