The Idea of Kosmopolis: History, Philosophy and Politics of World Citizenship"Contemporary discussions on cosmopolitanism are often based on older assumptions that have become invisible or hard to unearth. This volume explores the idea of kosmopolis by placing it into different historical, philosophical, social, and political contexts. By bringing together different views on and aspects of cosmopolitanism, the volume aims at contributing to new understandings of kosmopolis and the resulting cosmopolitan ideal, and of the fears this concept may generate. The nine contributors discuss kosmopolis within the contexts of philosophers such as Heraclitus and Kant, the thoughts and texts of the nobility, intellectual thoughts from the Enlightenment, contemporary political institutions, and grass root cosmopolitanism. The intent is to illustrate how the meaning of - cosmopolitanism - is influenced not only by its history but also by its specific contexts."--Back cover. |
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Contents
Rebecka Lettevall My Klockar Linder | 5 |
Peter Kemp | 11 |
Hans Ruin | 31 |
Copyright | |
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18th century according to Kant Addams’s alien reason American Beck Cambridge Chicago Christoph Martin Wieland claim conceming concept conflict context cosmopol cosmopolitan ideal cosmopolitanism cosmos culture Cynic defined definition Democracy Der Teutsche Merkur difficult Diogenes Diogenes Laertius Diogenes of Sinope discussed duties elite Encyclopédie Enlightenment European find first Fougeret fragments freemasomy French global justice govemance Hegel Heraclitus Hull-House human rights Ibid idea of kosmopolis Ideals of Peace Immanuel Kant important individual influence institutions intellectual intemational law Intemet invisible Jane Addams Kant’s Kleingeld leam live logos London Madame de Genlis means modem mopolitanism moral nation nature Newer Ideals Nobel Museum nobility one’s organization Perpetual Peace person perspective philosophical political Press problems Ramsay Ramsay’s Oration referred reflection secrecy secret societies sense significant specific Stockholm Stoic Sweden Swedish term theory thinking thought tion trans transnational Ulrich Beck universal Wieland world citizen world citizenship
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Idea of Kosmopolis: History, Philosophy and Politics of World Citizenship Volume 37 of Södertörn academic studies, ISSN 1650-433X |
| Editors | Rebecka Lettevall, My Klockar Linder |
| Publisher | Södertörns högskola, 2008 |
| Original from | Northwestern University |
| Digitized | Jul 29, 2011 |
| ISBN | 9189315936, 9789189315938 |
| Length | 181 pages |
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