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Nach der Natur. Das Artensterben und die Moderne Kultur by Ursula K. Heise, and: Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence by Bruce Robbins, and: The Cosmopolitanism Reader ed. by Garrett Wallace Brown and David Held, and: Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies ed. by Gerard Delanty, and: The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism ed. by Maria Rovisco and… by Moraru, Christian is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

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Hardly a new concept, cosmopolitanism reaches far beyond the conceptual. Properly speaking, it is not an "ism" either. As is well known, it has a long and somewhat contested history behind it. This is the multimillennial history of a highly complex, metaphysical, moral, and cosmological idea, of a set of sociocultural practices, and, lately, of a critical methodology with ethical, political, and anthropological ramifications. Notably, all these have been entangled with broader histories such as those of classical or more recent humanism, the Enlightenment, modernity, modernization, urbanization, colonization, decolonization, and globalization. With some of these or with darker episodes thereof like Nazism and Communism-Soviet-and Chinese-style alike, pre-and post-World War II-cosmopolitanism's basic tenets have been openly and commendably at loggerheads. In other cases, however, one can pinpoint embarrassing, "culturocentric, " and so de facto ironically "provin-

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Author

Moraru, Christian

Publisher

Project MUSE (ISSN 1559-0887)

Published

2014

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)