Cosmoliteratures: Cosmopolitanisms in Literatures, Literatures in Cosmopolitanisms
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Cosmoliteratures: Cosmopolitanisms in Literatures, Literatures in Cosmopolitanisms
Editors: Sousa, Rui | Nour Sckell, Soraya
Beiträge zur Politischen Wissenschaft, Vol. 208
(2025)
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Over the centuries, the concept of Cosmopolitanism has been prolifically and repeatedly used in systematic speculative thought. This is in part due to the influence that open dialogue between people from all over the world has had on the organisation of society and the best way to creatively shape it. The cosmopolitan intention encompasses both the differences between all individuals and the possibility of translating them into a potentially universal theoretical and practical plan. So, this historical continuity and the breadth of its ambitions is also present in the different disciplines and areas of knowledge that can be called upon to study cosmopolitanism or that can benefit from the use of a critical vocabulary derived from cosmopolitan proposals.This volume aims to explore precisely this diversity. Resulting from a series of conferences held throughout 2022, the contributions gathered here the two fields most represented our discussion: literature and political philosophy.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table of Content | 5 | ||
| Introduction | 7 | ||
| Nuno Miguel Proença: The “Lusiads Effect”: a Tension Towards Imperialism or Cosmopolitanism? | 13 | ||
| Voyage Versus Foundation, Cosmopolitan Pluralism Versus Imperialistic Sameness | 22 | ||
| References | 30 | ||
| Pedro António Monteiro Franco: The Ambiguous Cosmopolitanism of Joseph Conrad. A Reading of Heart of Darkness | 31 | ||
| Introduction | 31 | ||
| I. Conrad's Life and the Origins of Heart of Darkness | 31 | ||
| II. Plot Summary | 33 | ||
| III. Political Influence: Heart of Darkness and the Congo Reform Movement | 34 | ||
| IV. “Make us See” – What Does it Mean | 35 | ||
| V. Civilization and Authenticity | 36 | ||
| Bibliography | 38 | ||
| Marco Bucaioni: How Do you Say “Afropolitan” in Portuguese? African Literatures, Black-Portuguese Literature and Afropolitanism | 41 | ||
| Introduction | 41 | ||
| In Favour and Against Afropolitanism | 42 | ||
| Should we Say Afropolitan in Portuguese? | 43 | ||
| You Don't Say Afropolitan in Portuguese (so Far) | 48 | ||
| References | 50 | ||
| Sara Fernandes: Virginia Woolf & the Cosmopolitan Self | 51 | ||
| Bibliography | 62 | ||
| Soraya Nour Sckell: The Invention of the Self and of the Cosmos: Cosmology and Poetics of the Self in the Work of Paulo Cardoso | 65 | ||
| Bibliography | 75 | ||
| Márcio Suzuki: What Does it Mean to be Cosmopolitan? A Note on the History of the Concept | 77 | ||
| Connecting the Ancient and the Modern: Shaftesbury | 79 | ||
| Bibliography | 84 | ||
| Helena Inácio: The Global Constitutionalization Undertaken by the United Nations | 87 | ||
| I. Introduction | 87 | ||
| II. Global constitutionalism theoretical framework | 88 | ||
| III. The UN-led International Human Rights Regime | 93 | ||
| IV. Conclusion | 98 | ||
| Bibliography | 100 | ||
| Legal Sources | 101 | ||
| Lasha Kharazi: Univocity and Cosmopolitanism | 103 | ||
| I. Preliminary Question Concerning the Essential Politicality of Philosophy | 103 | ||
| II. Philosophy of Univocity | 105 | ||
| III. Politics of cosmopolitanism | 108 | ||
| Bibliography | 110 | ||
| Pedro António Monteiro Franco: Tradition and Cosmopolitanism in Alasdair MacIntyre and Kwame Anthony Appiah | 113 | ||
| I. | 113 | ||
| II. | 115 | ||
| III. | 119 | ||
| Bibliography | 120 | ||
| Marco Russo: A Broad-Minded Way of Thinking. Cosmological Perspectives in Kantian Cosmopolitanism | 121 | ||
| I. Cosmopolitanism Taken Literally | 121 | ||
| II. Conceptus Cosmicus | 123 | ||
| III. Pragmatic World | 126 | ||
| IV. A Broad-Minded Way of Thinking | 128 | ||
| V. The World as a Cosmopolitan Subject | 129 | ||
| Bibliography | 132 | ||
| Biographies | 135 |