Cosmopolitanism
cosmopolitanism
The cosmopolitanism is a concept defined by Diogène, starting from " Cosmos" , universe, and " politês" , citizen. He expresses the possibility of being native of a place, and of touching with the universality, without disavowing his characteristic. The 18th century thus developed the concept of citizen of the world, and the universality. Thus the Jesuits are cosmopolitan: they are accustomed to the habits and of the countries in which they forward during the Age of Enlightenment.
Definitions and examples
The cosmopolitanism is the mixture of several identities and the feeling to be a citizen of the world beyond the nations, without being rivetted with the one of them. Not to confuse with the Interbreeding, which is a mixture of several Culture S.The Ottoman Empire (cf Georges Corm, the East and Occident) were a cosmopolitan space where various cultures coexisted.
Georg Simmel and Ulrich Beck, preached the rupture with the methodological Nationalisme in order to found a new cosmopolitic sociology.
Cosmopolitan writers: Paul Morand, Stefan Zweig (the world of yesterday)
From a philosophical point of view, the cosmopolitanism is connected with the concept of universality of the man evoked by the principle of the human rights them-even
" The cosmopolitanism, which implies that one belongs deeply to only one culture and that, by a patient work, one brings this culture to the point of universality where it can meet the others, is the exact opposite of the “multiculturalism” which consists in a simple juxtaposition of heterogeneous realities. If one read Hofmannsthal well, one would find well there Europe cosmopolitan and not multicultural”. Jean-Yves Masson
See too
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