Abstract

DOUZINAS, Costas. Between polis and cosmos : The cosmopolitanism to come . Tabula Rasa [online]. 2009, n.11, pp.53-66. ISSN 1794-2489.

Through a revision of cosmopolitan tradition, in which the current version of this tradition (cynical instead of stoic) is destabilized and geographically relocated (to Scythia instead of a europeanized Greece), the author proposes not only a more plural genealogy, but also and most importantly, an image of cosmopolitanism as resistance and political activity of rebelliousness that activates the past in the present from a point of view of an emancipatory future still to come. This results in a strong critique of liberal cosmopolitanism and its replacement by an anti-imperial and emancipatory form.

Keywords : cosmopolitanism; humanity; cosmos; polis; political community.

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