lost history of cosmopolitanism: the early modern origins of the intellectual ideal
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Bloomsbury Academic
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London
Entstehungszeit:
2021
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Englisch
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Abstract:
Citizens, strangers and sojourners : towards a vocabulary of the cosmopolitan -- Hieroglyphics of empire -- Theatres of the world -- The cosmopolitan inversion -- Sharing Diogenes's tub -- Heavenly cities of the eighteenth-century philosophers.
"This book provides the first intellectual history of cosmopolitan ideas in the early modern age. The roots of modern cosmopolitanism can be traced back to as early as the 1500s when a meta-narrative and awareness of the cosmopolitan idea came into existence. Unearthing occurrences of cosmopolitan language in popular media and analysing the writings of leading thinkers, Leigh T.I. Penman illustrates how cosmopolitanism was not, as previously thought, purely secular and inclusive but could be sacred and exclusive too. And, significantly, this book reveals the extent to which these contesting ideas of cosmopolitanism influenced the modern concept of the cosmopolitan"--
"This book provides the first intellectual history of cosmopolitan ideas in the early modern age. The roots of modern cosmopolitanism can be traced back to as early as the 1500s when a meta-narrative and awareness of the cosmopolitan idea came into existence. Unearthing occurrences of cosmopolitan language in popular media and analysing the writings of leading thinkers, Leigh T.I. Penman illustrates how cosmopolitanism was not, as previously thought, purely secular and inclusive but could be sacred and exclusive too. And, significantly, this book reveals the extent to which these contesting ideas of cosmopolitanism influenced the modern concept of the cosmopolitan"--
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Leigh T.I. Penman
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [171]-200
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Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [171]-200
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