Cosmopolitanism And The Geographies Of Freedom (the Wellek Library Lectures)

Previously Published Wellek Library Lectures The Breaking of the Vesseis Harold Bloom (1983) In the Tracks of Histori.cal Materialism Perry Anderson (1984) Forms of Attention Frank Kermode (l,985) Mcmoins for Paul de Man Jacques Derrida (1986) The Ethics of Reading Cosmopolitanism J. Hillis Miller (1987) Peregrinations: Law, Form, Event Jean-Fraw;:ois Lyotard (1988) A Reopening of Closure: Organicism Against Itself Murray Krieger (1989) Musical Elaborations Edward W. Said (1991) Three Steps all. the Ladder ofWriting Helene Cixous (1993) and the Geographies �'_"*11iJiiLyy;w*,,.�j9';WUIG!10E$'i§'i�\1liWldb;�'" . - of , " - - - - : - ,'t - L: :_'�I_:-' ,i,: _ �,. ,. :' '''1tf�jJj\)k�i�{""",, Freedom 'The Seeds of Time Fredric Jameson (1994) Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology Evelyn Fox Keller (1995) The Fatefo·/ Question of Culture Geoffrey Hartman (1997) The Range of Interpretation David Harvey Wolfgang lser (2000) History's Disquiet: Modernity and Everyday Life Harry Harootunian (2000) Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death Judith Butler (2000) The Vital Illusion Jean Baudrillard (2000) Death of a Discipline Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (2003) Postcolonial Melancholia Paul Gilroy (2005) On Suicide Bombing Talal Asad (2007) COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2009 Columbia University Press EDITORIAL NOTE All rights reserved LibralY of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Wellek Library Lectures in Critical Theory are given annually at the Uni­ Harvey, David, 1935Cosmopolitanism and the geographies of freedom / David 'Harvey. p. em. � (Wellele Library lectures in critical theory) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-231-14846-7 (cloth: aIle paper) - ISBN 978-0-231-51991-5 (ebook) 1. Q-'Ography-PhJJosophy. 1. Title. G7o.H33 2. Cosmopolitanism. 3. Liberty. + Liberalism. II. Series. 2009 91O.0l-dc22 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in the United States of America C 10 987 6 543 References to Internet Web sites (URls) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither t1�e author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. versity of California, Irvine, under the auspices of the Critical Theory Insti­ tute. The following lectures were given in May 2005. The Critical Theory Institute Gabriele Schwab, Director Contents Preface ix Prologue 1 Part One: Universal Values 15 Kants Anthropology and Geography '7 The Postcolonial Critique of Liberal Cosmopolitanism The Flat World ofNeoliberal Utopianism 4 TheNew Cosmopolitans 51 77 5 The Banality of Geographical Evils Part Two: Geographical Knowledges 98 123 6 Geographical Reason 125 7 Spacetime and the World '33 8 Places, Regions, Territories 166 9 TheNature of Environment 202 Epilogue: Geographical Theory and the Ruses of Geographical Reason Notes 285 Bibliography Index 325 309 249 37 Preface This book began as the Wellek Library Lectures in Critical Theory deliv­ ered in the University of California at Irvine in May 2005. I t was both a privilege and a pleasure to spend