Between polis and cosmos: The cosmopolitanism to come

Entre la polis y el cosmos: El cosmopolitismo que vendrá

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.

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