Cosmopolitanism, Tianxia, and Walter Benjamin's “The Task of the Translator”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Pan (0000-0003-3558-4125, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 2017 |
| Issue | 180 |
| Pages | 26-46 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0917180026 |
| OpenAlex | W2754846920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
As a term, cosmopolitanism defies simple understanding. Already in its earliest formulation, attributed to the ancient Greek Cynic Diogenes, the merging of cosmos and polite to mean “citizen of the world” had a paradoxical meaning, imagining both local belonging as a citizen and lack of a specific place in the world.1 If the Cynics' notion of cosmopolitanism arises out of a rejection of conventions in general rather than the embracing of a world system, they were left in an empty space between locality and universality. This tension between belonging and universality continues into the current discussion of cosmopolitanism as a
Aesthetics · Cosmopolitanism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Locality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Universality (dynamical systems · Law · Philosophy · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |