Ich habe mein Junior Fellowship am University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence 'Alexander von Humboldt' nun abgeschlossen. Angegliedert war ich dem Institut für Fränkische Landesgeschichte der Universitäten Bayreuth und Bamberg. Ich werde „mein Schloss“, den Arbeitsplatz des Instituts im beeindruckenden Schloss Thurnau, und die tolle Atmosphäre, die von den dort arbeitenden Menschen geschaffen wurde, sehr vermissen. In dieser Zeit... Continue Reading →
I am thrilled that my book has been reviewed in Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism by such a prominent scholar and expert on republicanism and early modern political thought, Rachel Hammersley. Do check out her blog, which features many analyses on early modern political thought, republicanism, and James Harrington. My many thanks to the... Continue Reading →
https://jhiblog.org/2023/02/20/cosmopolitanism-in-eighteenth-century-france/ My post for JHI blog has just been published! Credit: An extremely detailed survey of the activities surrounding the building of the tower of Babel. Engraving, c. 1680. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
https://youtu.be/NxpMxccfrQ0 The Cosmopolitanism of Joseph Honoré Rémy On 29 May 2022, I was invited to give a lecture on my article in Early Modern French Studies, 'Transcending the Public and the Private: The Cosmopolitanism of Freemason Joseph Honoré Rémy'. I am very thankful to the organisers at the Open Lectures on Freemasonry. Check their other... Continue Reading →
The Universal Claims of Cosmopolitanism NYUAD Institute March 24, 2010
Global Intellectual History. Published online 30 May 2018, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976 https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2018.1479976. ABSTRACT This article analyses what Anacharsis Cloots (1755–1794) meant when he chose the name Anacharsis and called himself ‘Orator of the human race’. It argues that it was an act of self-fashioning by a foreigner in the French Revolution trying to find his place by representing... Continue Reading →
My PhD thesis from the European University Institute is available on the Open Access Repository Cadmus: A Cosmopolitan Republican in the French Revolution: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots
Recorded at the New York Societ Library on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 6:30 PM.
Books Ngram Viewer Graph these case-sensitive comma-separated phrases: between and from the corpus American English British English Chinese (simplified) English English Fiction English One Million French German Russian Spanish with smoothing of 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 20 30 40 50 . Search in Google Books: 1800 - 1895... Continue Reading →
I wrote a seminar paper at the European University Institute for the seminar "Nationalism in Theory and Practice" with Profs. Rainer Bauböck and Michael Keating. Since it received an excellent review I publish it here. You can find it on my academia.edu webpage: http://eui.academia.edu/FrankEjbyPoulsen/Papers/138682/Cosmopolitanism-and-Nationalism.
Work Cited Pollock, Sheldon, Homi K. Bhabha, Carol A. Breckenridge, and Dipesh Chakrabarty. “Cosmopolitanisms.” In Cosmopolitanism, edited by Carol A. Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha and Dipesh Chakrabarty, 1-14. Durham, NC & London: A Millennial Quartet Book, 2002. Cosmopolitanism as an object of study: practice and theory related in a necessarily open concept Cosmopolitanism... Continue Reading →
Now that I have started to acquire some degree of mastership in several languages, I am beginning to wonder about the side-effects of being a polyglot. Googling the term "polyglot" I came to the wikipedia page dedicated to multilingualism. According to some studies, there is a difference being made between "compound bilinguals" and "coordinate bilinguals".... Continue Reading →
Great article in Eurozine published in 2006 by Mikkel Thorup, lecturer at the University of Århus in Denmark, on political cosmopolitanism. It explains well where contemporary cosmopolitanism stands, in between universalism, pluralism, and nationalism: "New cosmopolitanism is therefore critical of what we can call the universalist Left and the nationalist Right." Still, the article, as... Continue Reading →
Thank you Peter for commenting on "Polyfonias" and delving into literary analyses. I would like to add to your comment on monolingualism. It seems that today we have forgotten our past when it comes to language. Our past was Babelian (but not in the sense that the myth should serve the construction of a universal... Continue Reading →
Excellent article on Humboldt and cosmopolitanism, arguing that the 'Weltbürger' was a scientist and the scientist a 'Weltbürger.' This reminds me of my own research on the use of the term cosmopolitan and citizen of the world in eighteenth century France. Very often people would use it as a moniker to claim a position of... Continue Reading →
My master's thesis "Element of an Archaeology of Cosmopolitanism in Western Political Thought: A Return to the French Enlightenment" is now available for download on the Danish website of the Department of Political Science, Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen. Using Foucault's archaeology and problematisation, coupled with the Cambridge school's contextualism, I investigate the... Continue Reading →
Work Cited Beck, Ulrich. The Cosmopolitan Vision. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006. Summary of the Introduction The introduction opens with the opposition cosmopolitanism/patriotism. Today this old debate is over because the human condition has become cosmopolitan (2) Cosmopolitanism is no more a controversial rational idea. The “cosmopolitan outlook”: “Global sense, a sense of boundarylessness. An everyday,... Continue Reading →
Work Cited Held, David. “Culture and Political Community: National, Global, and Cosmopolitan.” In Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context, Practice, edited by Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen, 48-58. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 1. Historical backdrop The globalisation of culture has a long history. The expansion of great religions, pre-modern empires, etc. “For most human history, these... Continue Reading →
Work Cited Copp, David. “International justice and the basic needs principle.” In The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, edited by Gillian Brock and Harry Brighouse, 39-54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. “Justice requires a state in favourable circumstances to enable its members to meet their basic needs throughout a normal lifespan”: the “basic needs principle” (39).... Continue Reading →
The book is like a diamond sparkling many facettes. I retain the opposition between patriotism and cosmopolitanism - an opposition also noticed by Martha Nussbaum in her article "Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism" published in the Boston Review, 1994. "I am willing," he said, "to serve my country; but my worship I reserve for Right which is... Continue Reading →
Benhabib, Seyla (2002), The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Global integration is progressing parallel to social disintegration (separatisms, international terrorism, national revival). “Yet wether [sic] we call the current movements “struggles for recognition” (Charles Taylor, Nancy Fraser, and Axel Honneth), “identity/difference movements,” [sic] (Iris Young,... Continue Reading →
Work Cited Rosenfeld, Sophia. “Citizens of Noweher in Particular: Cosmopolitanism, Writing and Political Engagement in Eighteenth-Century Europe.” National Identities 4, no. 1 (2002): 25-43. Contention of the essay: the development of the conceptual space of political engagement among private subjects cannot be reduced to the creation of national loyalties. A body of literature existed, produced... Continue Reading →
Mortier, R. (2000). Le rêve universaliste de l'"Orateur du Genre humain". In R. Mortier, Les Combats des Lumières (pp. 385-394). Paris: Aux amateurs de livres international. The Universalist idea was not something new or invented in the eighteenth century. However, the transformation of the feeling of being human into concrete political and social systems is... Continue Reading →
Work Cited Fink, Gonthier Louis (1997) “Cosmopolitisme.” In Dictionnaire européen des lumières, edited by Michel Delon, 277-279. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. « Le XVIIIe siècle est le siècle du cosmopolitisme » (L. Réau). (277) « En 1690, le Dictionnaire universel de Furetière, qui ne connaît pas encore le terme « cosmopolite », le définit indirectement à l’article... Continue Reading →
Introduction: cosmopolitanism, narrative, history Cosmopolitan history: “‘Cosmopolitanism’ is no longer a term much favoured by intellectual historians: as an idea, it seems to lack intellectual content; as a category of political thought, it has no referent. [footnote: “the last investigation of this idea was Thomas J. Schlereth]. The term is occasionally invoked by literary and... Continue Reading →
Historiographie du mot “cosmopolite.” Hazard, Pierre (1930) "Cosmopolite." In Mélanges d'histoire littéraire générale et comparée offerts à Fernand Baldensperger, 354-364. Paris: Libraire ancienne Honoré Champion. Résumé: Apparition au XVIe siècle : 1560 Guillaume Postel De la République des Turcs et, là où l’occasion s’offrera, des mœurs et des lois de tous muhamedistes, par Guillaume Postel, cosmopolite.... Continue Reading →
Dédéyan, Charles (1976) Le cosmopolitisme européen sous la Révolution et l’Empire. 2 vols. Paris: Société d’édition d’enseignement supérieur. One of the rare books of intellectual history about cosmopolitanism in Europe. Written in French, it is focusing on the periods immediately after the Enlightenment: the French Revolution and the first Empire under Napoléon Bonaparte. It is... Continue Reading →
Martha C. Nussbaum, professor at University of Chicago Law School, published in 1994 an article praising a "cosmopolitan stoic education" over a "national education" that started debates in the English speaking world about cosmopolitanism. The article is a reaction against Richard Rorty and Sheldon Hackney, and is therefore answering an internal Northern American debate. Published... Continue Reading →
Schlereth, Thomas (1977) The Cosmopolitan Ideal in Enlightenment Thought: Its Form and Function in the Ideas of Franklin, Hume, and Voltaire, 1694-1790. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Thomas J. Schlereth studied how the cosmopolitan ideal had a “noticeable impact on Enlightenment intellectual life throughout the trans-Atlantic community”.[1] But Schlereth does not advance that... Continue Reading →
Dans la pensée de Rousseau, il y a un paradoxe sur lequel on se penche de plus en plus. Une certaine acrimonie face aux cosmopolites, alors que Rousseau exprime une pensée cosmopolitique en reprenant le grand projet de Saint-Pierre d'une paix universelle et perpétuelle. Projet raillé par un truculent Voltaire il est vrai, dans son... Continue Reading →
Que faut-il comprendre aujourd'hui des mots cosmopolite, cosmopolitisme ? D'abord si l'on reprend 'histoire de l'apparition de ces mots, il faut bien se rendre à l'évidence que notre conception actuelle est liée au paradigme dominant du nationalisme qui nous pousse à y voir une opposition entre cosmopolitisme et nationalisme. J'avance la thèse, en fait, que... Continue Reading →
Here is a link to an article by German sociologist Ulrich Beck published in November 2007, which is a translation of the original into English: http://www.signandsight.com/features/1603.html It is quite summing up the arguments developed in his three last books on cosmopolitanism -- Power in the Global Age: A New Political Economy (2002/2006); Cosmopolitan Vision (2004/2006);... Continue Reading →
I have decided to set up a new weblog in order to publicise my research activities and personal research themes and projects. I hope to create a network of interest around my activities, make myself known, and get acquainted with other academic research activities on the same field or topic. This blog is also egoistically... Continue Reading →
Frank Ejby Poulsen 