Increasingly, humans are living amid the tensions created by a desire for a unified world, on the one hand, and the disparities of globalization, on the other.

The Cosmopolitan Predicament

vol. 11, no. 3 (Fall 2009)

Introduction

ESSAYS

Mapping the Good World: The New Cosmopolitans and Our Changing World Picture

Joshua J. Yates

Cosmopolitanism and Democracy: Affinities and Tensions

Seyla Benhabib

Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism

Anthony D. Smith

Secularization and the Universalizing Process

John M. Headley

Cosmopolitanism: Three Études in the Quest for a Lost Ideal of Civilization

Rob Riemen

Cosmopolitanism and Ritual Movement

William H. McNeill

INTERVIEW

Making Sense of Cosmopolitanism: A Conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah

Joshua J. Yates

POEMS

Apollo: I. For the First Manned Moon Orbit

James Dickey

The Century’s Decline

Wislawa Szymborska

EXCERPTS

On Cosmopolitanism…

REVIEWS

The Universe in a Grain of Sand? Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism Reconsidered: A Review of Seyla Benhabib’s Another Cosmopolitanism, Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Cosmopolitanism, and Craig Calhoun’s Nations Matter

Johann N. Neem

A Review of David Harvey’s Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

Hilde Eliassen Restad

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW

Cosmopolitanism: A Bibliographic Essay

Jeffrey S. Dill

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