Costas Douzinas
c.douzinas@bbk.ac.uk
University of London, Birkbeck College, UK
Abstract:
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.
