An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world.

-Where are you from?- The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a -kosmo-polites, - or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses--on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of membership in some larger, more compelling collective.

Cosmopolitanisms works from the premise that there is more than one kind of...

An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world.

-Where are you from?- The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a -kosmo-polites, - or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses--on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of membership in some larger, more compelling collective.

Cosmopolitanisms works from the premise that there is more than one kind of...