Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents

Course Syllabus

Professors Andreas Kalyvas & Elzbieta Matynia

Session 1. Cosmopolitanism redivivus/ Return of
-- Martha Nussbaum, “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism” in M. Nussbaum , et al. For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism, ed. Joshua Cohen, Boston: Beacon Press, 1996, pp. 3-21. (PDF)
-- Anthony Appiah, “Cosmopolitan Patriots,” in M. Nussbaum , et al. For Love of Country: Debating the Limits of Patriotism, ed. Joshua Cohen, Boston: Beacon Press, 1996, pp. 21-30. (PDF)
-- Patrick J. Deneen “Against Cosmopolitanism, Resisting the Sirens’ Song” (PDF)
-- Julia Kristeva, “What of Tomorrow’s Nation,” in Nations without Nationalism, Columbia University Press, 1993, pp. 1-49. (PDF)

Session 2. Ancient Greek Cosmopolitanism
-- Diogenes Laertius, “Diogenes,” Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, trans. R.D. Hicks, Vol. 2., Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1925, pp. 23-85. (PDF)
-- Moles, J.L. “Cynic Cosmopolitanism,” in The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, ed. R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996, pp. 105-120. (PDF)
-- Brown, Eric. “Hellenistic Cosmopolitanism.” in A Companion to Ancient Philosophy, ed. Mary Louise Gill and Pierre Pellegrin (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 549-58. (PDF)
-- Baldry, H. C., “Alexander the Great and the Unity of Mankind,” in his The Unity of the Mankind in Greek Thought, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965, pp. 113-127. (PDF)

Session 3. Ancient Roman Cosmopolitanism
-- Cicero. De Officiis, translated as On Duties, ed. and trans. M.T. Griffin and E.M. Atkins, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, Books I, III, pp. 1-62, 101-147. (PDF)
-- Thomas L. Pangle, “Socratic Cosmopolitanism: Cicero's Critique and Transformation of the Stoic Ideal,” Canadian Journal of Political Science /Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol. 31:2 (1998), pp. 235-262. (PDF)

Session 4. Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment
-- Voltaire, “Patrie (Homeland),” in Voltaire: Political Writings, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ed. David Williams, 1994, pp. 25-30. (PDF)
-- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, “On the Writings of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre,” in The Plan for Perpetual Peace, On the Government of Poland, and Other Writings on History and Politics, Dartmouth, 2005, pp. 23-76. (PDF)
-- Cleveland B. Chase, “Cosmopolitanism,” in Cleveland B. Chase, The Young Voltaire, Kessinger Publishing, 2003, pp. 199-228. (PDF)
-- Cavallar, Georg, “‘La société générale du genre humain’: Rousseau on cosmopolitanism, international relations, and republican patriotism,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 9 (2003), pp. 89-109. (PDF)
-- Montesquieu Persian Letters, Gibbings & Company, London in 1899 ; Letters: 1, 6, 27, 28, 31, 34, 38, 48, 145. The book is in the public domain, and text is available through internet)
-- Kleingeld, Pauline, “Six Varieties of Cosmopolitanism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany.” Journal of the History of Ideas 60 (1999): 505-524. (PDF)

Session 5. Articulating the concept: The political cosmopolitanism of Immanuel Kant
-- Immanuel Kant, “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose,” in Kant. Political Writings, ed. Hans Reiss, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 41-53. (PDF)
-- Immanuel Kant, “Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch,” in Kant. Political Writings, ed. Hans Reiss, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp.93-130. (PDF)
-- Nussbaum, Martha, “Kant and Cosmopolitanism,” in Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant’s Cosmopolitan Ideal, ed. James Bohman and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Cambridge: MIT, 1997, pp. 25-57. (PDF)
-- Jürgen Habermas, “Kant’s Idea of Perpetual Peace, with the Benefit of Two Hundred Years’ Insights,” in Perpetual Peace: Essays on Kant’s Cosmopolitan Ideal, ed. James Bohman and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Cambridge: MIT, 1997, pp. 113-154. (PDF)
-- Kleingeld, Pauline, “Approaching Perpetual Peace: Kant's Defense of a League of States and his Ideal of a World Federation,” European Journal of Philosophy 12 (2004), pp. 304-325. (PDF)

Session 6. Competing Visions: Nationalism
-- Ernest Renan, “Qu’est-ce qu’ une nation?” (“What is the nation?”), in The Nationalism Reader, eds. Dahbour and Ishay, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1995, pp. 143-155 (PDF)
-- Lord Acton, “Nationality,” in Essays on Freedom and Power, by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Boston: The Free press, 1948. (PDF)
-- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation, trans. R. F. Jones and G. H. Turnbull (Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979), pp. 60-70 (PDF)
-- Miller, Richard W. “Cosmopolitan Respect and Patriotic Concern,” Philosophy & Public Affairs 27 (1998), pp. 202-224. (PDF)
-- Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism: Program, Myth and Reality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, chs. 1, 6, pp. 14-45, 163-192. (PDF)

Session 7. Competing Visions: Multiculturalism
-- Michael Walzer, “Multiculturalism and Individualism,” Dissent, (spring 1994), pp. 185-193. (PDF)
-- Will Kymlicka, “The Politics of Multiculturalism,” Multicultural Citizenship. A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 10-33. (PDF)
-- Cornel West, “The New Cultural Politics of Difference,” in The Cultural Studies Reader, pp. 203-222 (PDF)
-- K. Anthony Appiah, “Identity, Authenticity, Survival: Multicultural Societies and Social Reproduction,” in Multiculturalism, ed. Amy Gutmann, pp. 149-164. (PDF)
-- Anne Phillips, “Multiculturalism, Universalism and the Claims of Democracy,” Gender Justice, Development, and Rights (November 2002), pp. 115-139. (PDF)
-- Susan Moller Okin, “Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?” in Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?, eds. J. Cohen, M. Howard, and M. C. Nussbaum, Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. (PDF)

Session 8. Cosmopolitanism and Democratic Politics
-- David Held, “Political Community and the Cosmopolitan Order,” in his Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995, pp. 219-286. (PDF)
-- Daniele Archibugi, “From the United Nations to Cosmopolitan Democracy,” Cosmopolitan Democracy, ed. Daniele Archibugi and David Held, Polity Press, 1995, pp. 121-162. (PDF)
-- Daniele Archibugi, “Cosmopolitical Democracy,” in Debating Cosmopolitics, ed. Daniele Archibugi, Verso, 2003, pp. 1-15. (PDF)
-- Nadia Urbinati, “Can Cosmopolitical Democracy be Democratic?” in Debating Cosmopolitics, ed. Daniele Archibugi, Verso, 2003, pp. 67-85. (PDF)
-- Craig Calhoun, “The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism,” in Debating Cosmopolitics, ed. Daniele Archibugi, Verso, 2003, pp. 86-116. (PDF)

Session 9. The Postcolonial Position
-- Arjun Appadurai, “Postnational Locations,” in Modernity at Large, University of Minnesota Press, 1996, pp. 139-200. (PDF)
-- Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Idea of Provincionalizing Europe,” in Provincionalizing Europe, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 3-26. (PDF)
-- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “Cultural Talks in the Hot Peace: Revisiting the ‘Global Village’,” in Cosmopolitics. Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation, University of Minnesota press, 1998, pp. 329-350. (PDF)
--Walter D. Mignolo, “The Many Faces of Cosmo-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism,” Cosmopolitanism, Duke University Press, 2002, pp. 157-188. (PDF)
-- Mamadou Diouf, “The Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora and the Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitanism,” Cosmopolitanism, Duke University Press, 2002, pp. 111-137. (PDF)

Session 10. Human Rights and Cosmopolitanism
-- Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
-- Burns H. Weston, “The Universality of Human Rights in Multicultural World”, in Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. 39-52. (PDF)
-- Martha C. Nussbaum, “Capabilities, Human Rights and Universal Declaration”, in Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. 27-37 (PDF)

Session 11. Gender and Cosmopolitanism
-- Amrita Basu, “Introduction”, The Challenge of Global Feminism, Westview Press,1995, pp. 1-25. (PDF)
-- Floya Anthias, and Nira Yuval-Davis, “Women and the Nation State”, in Nationalism, eds. John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith, 1997. (PDF)
-- Eva Brems, “Protecting the Rights of Women” in Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. 120-134 (PDF)
-- Elzbieta Matynia, “Provincializing Global Feminism” Social Research (Summer 2003), pp. (PDF)
-- Patricia Stamp, “Burying Otieno: the Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in Kenya,” Signs, 1991/16/4. (PDF)

Session 12. Civil Society: Local or Global?
-- Michael Walzer, “The Concept of Civil Society”, Toward a Global Civil Society, Oxford, 1995, pp. 7-29. (PDF)
-- Kai Nelson, “Reconceptualizing civil society for now: Some somewhat Gramscien Turnings”, Toward a Global Civil Society, Oxford, 1995, pp. 41-69 (PDF)
-- Simone Chambers, Will Kymlicka, “Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society” introductory chpt to the collection of essays, Simone Chambers & Will Kymlicka (eds), Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society, Princeton Univ. Press, 2002, pp. 1-13. (PDF)