Tang "Cosmopolitanism": Toward a Critical and Global Approach (May 19, 2022)

2014

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How can we conceive of global culture as an entity without playing unity and diversity off one another? The diversity of interconnected cultures on a bounded planet requires shared orientations. Thus, the conceptualization of a cosmopolitan humanism is an urgent project for humanity. Particularly, it is of urgent necessity that we determine what a version of cosmopolitan humanism looks like that does not rush to universalize the views and historical experiences of the European or American world? The need for unity is juxtaposed against the ubiquitous tendency to differentiate. All are alike, yet all are different, and above all, everyone wants to distinguish him or herself from an other. People are not content to define cultures predominantly in terms of their differences, nor do individuals map neatly onto a single "identity." A central question in the pursuit of a new and non-Western-centric humanism goes as follows: What do we owe strangers by virtue of our shared human...

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Jurnal Ilmiah Hubungan Internasional

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2002

The authors and editors consider the multi-layered ways in which cosmopolitanism has entered our world. They review the major theoretical interventions of recent years as well as discussing the contexts and practices of cosmopolitanism. The book comprises an ambitious introduction and sixteen chapters by leading scholars. Duncan S. A. Bell in International Affairs 79 (4), July 2003, p. 880 calls this ‘[An]’ insightful collection of essays’. He continues ‘Moreover, the editors provide an excellent summary of the multiple ‘cosmopolitanisms’ that the book seeks to uncover, articulate, prescribe and critique’

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Conceiving cosmopolitanism: theory, context and practice Steven Vertovec and Robin Cohen (eds.), 2002

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Irish Journal of Sociology, 2012

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Telos, 2022

Recent years saw the emergence of a vibrant Chinese field of world philosophizing, propelled by the sense of an imminent "new era" (xin shidai) in which China would express itself with greater "self-confidence" (zixin) on the world stage. I will argue that through conceptualizing particularity, universality, and world order in polemically skewed and, in some instances, even deliberately contradictory ways, China's world theorists position themselves in domestic and international political contestations. At stake domestically are the status of Chinese nationhood and communist historiography, the cultivation of a Chinese sense of cosmopolitanism, and the question of China's mission on the world stage. Internationally, China's world theorists polemicize against powerfully influential conceptions in Western academia, journalism, and politics that center the world on America, the West, and liberal ideology.

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