The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics. Ho

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The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism challenges our most basic assumptions about the history of an ideal at the heart of modernity. Beginning in antiquity and co

As we face new global challenges – from climate change to the international political order – the need to re-examine the historical roots of cosmopolitanism

While each chapter seizes the dialectic of enlightenment and counter-enlightenment at work in the global world, the volume insists on the moral, intellectual, s