Cosmopolitan localism simply means that if cosmpolitan ideals are seriously considered, there is no need to take Kant as the blue print. Kant should be taken as a local ideal of a cosmopolitan world, the European idea. Since such imperial cosmopolitan...
Cosmopolitan localism simply means that if cosmpolitan ideals are seriously considered, there is no need to take Kant as the blue print. Kant should be taken as a local ideal of a cosmopolitan world, the European idea. Since such imperial cosmopolitanism now is untenable, it is necessary to reduce Kantian legacies to size for there are many other local histories in which cosmopolitan projects emerge. It is already enough to have taken the idea of the cosmo-polis or orbis-terrarum as horizons of life. It is not necessary to carry with it the feelings, ideals, sentiments and desires of those who proposed the terms. Reducing Kantian legacies to size means that Euro-American concepts of cosmopolitanism have the right to exist but have no right to expect to be universal. Cosmoplitan localism means the multiplication of nodes, the active intervention of local cosmopolitan project from all over the world and the reductin of Western cosmopolitans to its own local history.