Cosmos, Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitics throughout History
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Cosmos, Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitics throughout History
Editors: Nour Sckell, Soraya | Ehrhardt, Damien
Beiträge zur Politischen Wissenschaft, Vol. 200
(2022)
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The relationship between human beings and the cosmos has developed in divergent mythological, poetic, religious, philosophical, scientific, political-juridical, and ecological ways over time. Throughout history the cosmos has been subjected to a scientific perspective as well as to the poetic gaze, both of which contemplate the mysteries of the night, the comets, the king-sun, the moon, and infinity. Several other concepts, such as cosmology, cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics, cosmopolitan citizenship, cosmopolitan law, and cosmic consciousness are derived from the idea of the cosmos. Cosmopolitanism relates to the ethical ideal of belonging, as a citizen of the world, to a universal community, beyond any links to particular communities. Cosmopolitics corresponds to a dual concern with affording local politics a cosmopolitan dimension and ensuring that global politics has a democratic dimension. This book intends to discuss the various perspectives on the cosmos, cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics and other related concepts.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table of Contents | 5 | ||
| Soraya Nour Sckell & Damien Ehrhardt: Introduction | 7 | ||
| Part I Since ancient times | 15 | ||
| Carlos João Correia, Cosmogony | 17 | ||
| Bibliography | 22 | ||
| Nguyen Quy Dao, A Far-Eastern reading of the sky | 25 | ||
| I. Introduction | 25 | ||
| II. The Dunhuang maps and the Forbidden City in the sky | 25 | ||
| 1. Tales and legends of the cosmos | 27 | ||
| a) Is the sun nearer to us in the morning or at noon? | 27 | ||
| b) The God of Agriculture | 27 | ||
| c) The legend of Nguu Lang and Chuc Nu | 29 | ||
| 2. Legends of the moon | 31 | ||
| a) On the moon, a little boy named Cuội, little Pebble | 31 | ||
| b) The jade rabbit | 33 | ||
| c) The moon and loneliness | 34 | ||
| III. Conclusion | 35 | ||
| IV. Acknowledgments | 35 | ||
| Part II Through the 18th Century | 37 | ||
| Susana Antas Videira, Republicanism, representation andequality in the works of Thomas Paine | 39 | ||
| Bibliography | 48 | ||
| Alexei N. Krouglov, Struggle against the “Best of all Possible Worlds” Doctrine mid-18th Century German Cosmology | 49 | ||
| I. Cosmology within the 18th century metaphysics | 49 | ||
| 1. Notion of world as the subject of cosmology | 50 | ||
| 2. Leibniz, theodicy problem and the notion of optimism | 50 | ||
| 3. Prize-contest of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin (1755) and Lisbon Earthquake | 51 | ||
| II. Chr. A. Crusius' critique of the Best of All Possible Worlds doctrine | 52 | ||
| III. The Crusians on the world that is not the best one: A.F. Reinhard and D. Weymann | 55 | ||
| IV. Kant's polemic with the Crusians on the Best of All Possible Worlds | 58 | ||
| V. Weymann against Kant | 62 | ||
| Conclusion | 64 | ||
| Bibliography | 64 | ||
| Gualtiero Lorini, Völkerrecht as Staatenrecht. Unpacking Kant's definition of cosmopolitan right | 69 | ||
| Introductory remarks | 69 | ||
| I. From the ius gentium to the interstatal right | 70 | ||
| II. From Staatenrecht to Weltbürgerrecht | 72 | ||
| Final remarks: The pragmatism of Kant's cosmopolitan right | 76 | ||
| Bibliography | 78 | ||
| Primary Literature | 79 | ||
| Secondary Literature | 79 | ||
| Part III Through the 19th Century | 81 | ||
| Oliver Schlaudt, Alexander von Humboldt – ein moderner Anthropologe? Eine foucauldianische Lektüre des Kosmos | 83 | ||
| I. Was bedeutet „moderne“ Anthropologie? | 83 | ||
| II. Der Platz des Menschen im Kosmos | 85 | ||
| 1. Der Mensch als Subjekt und Objekt im Kosmos | 86 | ||
| 2. Eine „Naturkunde des Geistes“ | 87 | ||
| 3. Zwischen Relativismus und Teleologie | 89 | ||
| III. Schluss: Ein teleologisch fundierter Universalismus | 93 | ||
| Literatur | 96 | ||
| Dirk Michael Hennrich, Landschaft oder Kosmos. Ein Beitrag zur Philosophie der Landschaft im Ausgang von Alexander von Humboldt | 99 | ||
| I. Sehnsucht nach dem Ganzen | 99 | ||
| II. Landschaft und Kosmos | 101 | ||
| III. Philosophie der Landschaft | 103 | ||
| Literatur | 106 | ||
| Damien Ehrhardt, Musique et cosmos : l'émergence de la forme dans l'œuvre au XIXe siècle | 109 | ||
| I. Musique et cosmos : des notions polysémiques | 109 | ||
| 1. Les définitions usuelles | 109 | ||
| 2. Le cosmos de l'art | 110 | ||
| II. Musique et cosmos : un panorama historique | 111 | ||
| 1. La musique des sphères | 111 | ||
| 2. Le tournant de la Renaissance et des débuts du Baroque. Astronomia nova et seconda prattica | 112 | ||
| III. L'émergence de la forme musicale : un changement de paradigme | 115 | ||
| IV. Au-delà de la mondialisation : l'âge du cosmique | 117 | ||
| Bibliographie | 120 | ||
| Part IV Through the 20th Century | 123 | ||
| Juvenal Savian Filho, The world as experience | 125 | ||
| Bibliography | 128 | ||
| Soraya Nour Sckell und Thorsten Fath, Dialektischer Kosmopolitismus: jenseits der Polarisierungen dreier paradigmatischer Ansätze bei Horkheimer, Habermas und Hardt/Negri | 129 | ||
| Einführung | 129 | ||
| I. Habermas' Kommunikative Vernunft in menschheitlich-universeller Perspektive | 131 | ||
| 1. Die universelle kommunikative Vernunft | 131 | ||
| 2. Die Universalisierung der Lebenswelt | 132 | ||
| 3. Universalisierung unabhängig vom System | 133 | ||
| 4. Die Moderne als Universalisierungsprozess | 136 | ||
| II. Hardt/Negris' Multitude | 138 | ||
| 1. Das globale Empire | 139 | ||
| 2. Die Multitude | 140 | ||
| III. Politisch-historische Subjektivität bei Horkheimer | 142 | ||
| 1. Der historische Kern der Vernunft | 143 | ||
| 2. Dialektik zwischen Subjekt und partikularen Strukturen | 145 | ||
| 3. Das partikular-konkrete Subjekt | 149 | ||
| Schlussbemerkung | 152 | ||
| Literatur | 153 | ||
| Frauke A. Kurbacher, cosmopolitan critique – On being a world citizen alongside Kant, Arendt and Derrida | 157 | ||
| Bibliography | 164 | ||
| Part V Contemporary approaches | 167 | ||
| Paulo de Brito, Reflections on MacCormick's “civic conception of nation”, the idea of a “world state” and Pogge's cosmopolitan approach | 169 | ||
| I. The idea of a World State | 171 | ||
| II. Pogge's cosmopolitan approach | 173 | ||
| Concluding remarks | 176 | ||
| Bibliography | 176 | ||
| João Pinheiro, A naturalist agenda for cosmopolitan research: The cosmopolitan conjecture | 177 | ||
| I. Naturalism, an epistemic dimension for cosmopolitanism | 177 | ||
| II. The cosmopolitan conjecture: An evolutionary trend and an imperative to cooperate | 182 | ||
| III. An evolutionary game theoretical approach to the cosmopolitan conjecture | 189 | ||
| IV. The evolution of cosmopolitan behavior | 194 | ||
| 1. Kin selection | 196 | ||
| 2. Group selection | 197 | ||
| 3. Direct reciprocity | 198 | ||
| 4. Indirect reciprocity | 199 | ||
| 5. Network reciprocity | 200 | ||
| a) Modelling Interdependency | 202 | ||
| b) Modelling existential risk | 205 | ||
| V. Prolegomena to future research | 208 | ||
| Acknowledgements | 213 | ||
| Funding | 214 | ||
| Bibliography | 214 | ||
| Gérard Raulet, Le cosmopolitisme est-il une réalité ? Antinomies et stratégies discursives | 223 | ||
| I. La réalité incontournable d'un concept ? | 224 | ||
| II. La confusion métaphysique. Flash back sur les origines | 227 | ||
| III. Les antinomies constitutives du cosmopolitisme | 230 | ||
| 1. Le complexe de l'universalisme et l'individualisme | 231 | ||
| 2. La confusion entre le cosmopolitisme et le multiculturalisme | 233 | ||
| 3. La confusion du privé et du public | 234 | ||
| 4. Multiculturalisme, judiciarisation, et les enjeux d'une justice globale | 235 | ||
| 5. L'antinomie du local et du spatial | 236 | ||
| IV. Le transnationalisme plutôt que le cosmopolitisme | 238 | ||
| V. Citoyenneté universelle ? | 241 | ||
| Bibliographie | 243 | ||
| Biographies | 247 | ||
| Personal Index | 253 |