The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism

The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism challenges our most basic assumptions about the history of an ideal at the heart of modernity. Beginning in antiquity and continuing through to today, Leigh T.I. Penman examines how European thinkers have understood words like ''kosmopolites'', ''cosmopolite'', ''cosmopolitan'' and its cognates. The debates over their meanings show that there has never been a si...