Chasing Butterflies Without a Net: Interpreting Cosmopolitanism

Studies in Philosophy and Education 29 (2):151-166 (2010)
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In this article, I map current conceptions of cosmopolitanism and sketch distinctions between the concept and humanism and multiculturalism. The differences mirror what I take to be a central motif of cosmopolitanism: the capacity to fuse reflective openness to the new with reflective loyalty to the known. This motif invites a reconsideration of the meaning of culture as well as of the relations between home and the world.

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