The Cosmopolitan Illusion: The Citizen of the World Is a Citizen of Nowhere

In: Policy review: the journal of American citizenship, Heft 118, S. [np]

Abstract

A comment on Martha Nussbaum's "Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism" (1994) assesses her arguments in favor of cosmopolitanism by tracing the roots of the concepts to ancient Greece & Rome, attempting to visual the fulfillment of the cosmopolitan ideal, & considering this ideal in terms of the globalization of the Rawlsian "veil of ignorance." In this light, problems with the cosmopolitan ideal are identified & the false choice between patriotism & cosmopolitanism is discussed. Adapted from the source document.