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Category Archives: Cosmopolitanism
Invited Lecture on the First Book on Cosmopolitanism
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 … Continue reading
The Universal Claims of Cosmopolitanism
The Universal Claims of Cosmopolitanism NYUAD Institute March 24, 2010
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Self-fashioning and rhetoric in the french revolution: Anacharsis Cloots, orator of the human race
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Anacharsis, Anacharsis Cloots, cloots, French revolution, rhetoric, self-fashioning
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PhD Thesis
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
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Kwame Anthony Appiah: My Cosmopolitanism
Recorded at the New York Societ Library on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 6:30 PM.
Posted in Cosmopolitan authors, Cosmopolitanism, Lecture, Video
Tagged Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Google labs: cosmopolitanism vs. nationalism
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 … Continue reading
Kwame Anthony Appiah: Dubois and Cosmopolitanism
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Tagged Appiah, Cosmopolitanism, Dubois
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The Kantian Project of Cosmopolitan Law – Jürgen Habermas
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Tagged Cosmopolitan Law, Habermas, Kant
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Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism
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 … Continue reading
Pollock, Sheldon, Bhabha, Breckenridge — Cosmopolitanisms
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 … Continue reading
The identical cameleon
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 … Continue reading
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Mikkel Thorup – Cosmopolitics!
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 … Continue reading
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Ottmar Ette (University of Potsdam) The Scientist as Weltbürger: Alexander von Humboldt and the Beginning of Cosmopolitics
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 … Continue reading
History of Cosmopolitanism in Western Political Thought
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 … Continue reading
Beck, Ulrich — The Cosmopolitan Vision
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 … Continue reading
Held, David — Culture and Political Community: National, Global and Cosmopolitan
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 … Continue reading
Copp, David — International Justice and the Basic Needs Principle
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 … Continue reading
Tagore — The Home and the World
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,” … Continue reading
Benhabib, Seyla — The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, cosmopolitan theory, Cosmopolitanism, culture theory, dialogic process, identity
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Rosenfeld, Sofia — Citizens of Nowhere in Particular: Cosmopolitanism, Writing and Political Engagement in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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 … Continue reading
Mortier — Le rêve universaliste de l’orateur du genre humain
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, … Continue reading
Fink, Gonthier Louis — “Cosmopolitisme” in Dictionnaire européen des lumières
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 … Continue reading
O’Brien, Karen — Narratives of Enlightenment
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 … Continue reading
Hazard, Pierre – Cosmopolite
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 … Continue reading
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Dédéyan: le cosmopolitisme européen sous la révolution et l’empire
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 … Continue reading
On Nussbaum, cosmopolitanism and patriotism (and nationalism)
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged American debate, cosmopolitanism and patriotism, education, Nussbaum, patriotism
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Schlereth: The Cosmopolitan Ideal in Enlightenment Thought
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 … Continue reading
Rousseau et le paradoxe d’une pensée cosmopolitique anti-cosmopolite
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 … Continue reading
Cosmopolite, cosmopolitain, cosmopolitisme: définitions et problèmes
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 … Continue reading
Ulrich Beck: A New Cosmopolitanism is in the Air
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 … Continue reading
Setting up a new blog on my research activities
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 … Continue reading
Frank Ejby Poulsen, Ph.D. 
From the nation-state to the cosmopolitan-state: politics and culture for the 21st century
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 … Continue reading →