Abstract:A panoptic conceptWithin the last 10 years, cosmopolitanism has become, among other concepts, a popular notion in a broad spectrum of disciplines such as philosophy, law, political sciences, sociology, anthropology, and history. Many authors have tried to grasp its contours in an expanding literature in which it ranges from an ethics of encounter (Appiah, 2006), to the celebration of a common humanity, to a Western-based universalism (Gilroy, 2004) or some 'translocal' citizenship (Appadurai, 1996). However, d… Show more
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