Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents

This volume examines the cosmopolitanism ideal from ancient to contemporary times. It grapples with the question: Is there still relevance today for the idea of the "citizen of the world" that transcends national borders in the aftermath of the Brexit Referendum result and election of Donald Trump in 2016?

Introduction: Contextualizing the Age of Brexit and Trump

Lee Ward

Chapter One: The Myth of Cicero's Cosmopolitanism

Cary J. Nederman

Chapter Two: Johannes Althusius's Cosmopolitan Defense of Local Politics

Nicholas Aroney and Simon P. Kennedy

Chapter Three: Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Jewish Political Thought

Vasileios Syros

Chapter Four: Rousseau and the Problem of Cosmopolitanism

John T. Scott

Chapter Five: A Cosmopolitanism that Populists Could Love: Kant on Refugees, Elites, and National Honor

Jeffrey Church

Chapter Six: Citizen Marx: On His Distinction between Cosmopolitanism and Internationalism Paul Christopher Gray

Chapter Seven: Nietzsche's Good Europeans: Beyond Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism

Paul Kirkland

Chapter Eight: From 'Global Culture' to 'Authentic History': Notes on the Preview of Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy

José Daniel Parra

Chapter Nine: John Rawls against the Clash of Civilizations

Michel Seymour

Chapter Ten: Glocalism and Democracy in James Tully's Critique of Cosmopolitanism and Imperialism

Lee Ward

Chapter Eleven: Rethinking the Boundary Problem

Zoltan Miklosi and Szolt Kapelner

Chapter Twelve: "Forced to be free": Nationalism and the Hijab Controversy in France

Ann Ward

Chapter Thirteen: Demos or no demos? Citizenship and Democracy in the EU

Claudia Wiesner

Chapter Fourteen: A Decline in Democratic Say? The Accounts of James Allan and Pierre Manent

Carl Eric Scott