"Nikos Papastergiadis has put the cosmos back into cosmopolitanism, refusing to cede the intellectual and aesthetic gravity of the concept to reductive, neoliberal apologia. Added to his usual encyclopedic scholarship and lucid writing is a generous sense of connection to place, people, and planet that makes this book both compelling and urgent - a must-read!"Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough University"In this inspiring and lucidly written book, Papastergiadis shows that cosmopolitanism exerts a continued allure for contemporary critical thought and is deeply embedded in the human condition and in aesthetic sensibility."Gerard Delanty, Sussex University
Prolegomenon: Putting the Cosmos Back into Cosmopolitanism1 Introduction: A Constellation for Cosmopolitanism in Seven PointsPart 1 Cosmos in Antiquity2 Cosmopolitanism in Antiquity3 Stoic lives and the places of Cosmopolitanism4 Cosmopolis and Physics of Cosmic FirePart 2 Closing Apertures: Fading Cosmos and Rising Anthropos5 From St Paul to the Enlightenment6 Kant: Cosmopolitanism or the GraveyardPart 3 From the Moral Imperative to the Creative Constitutive7 After Kant: Political Philosophy for Cosmopolitanism - Habermas and Derrida8 After Kant: Political Philosophy against Cosmopolitanism - Sloterdijk and Mouffe9 Cosmos Perduring in Art10 Cosmos from the Global South: From Subaltern to Decolonial Perspectives11 Cosmos for the World12 Epilogue: Cosmic Fire and Liquid Polis
Nikos Papastergiadis is the Director of the Research Unit in Public Cultures and a professor in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.