Cosmopolitan Identity

Original title:

La identidad cosmopolita. Los límites del patriotismo en la era global

About the book:

Cosmopolitan Identity

Once upon a time, being cosmopolitan was a vocation or a privilege. These days it is a condition common to many people around the world, and increasingly a necessity to be able to co-exist with the diversity of cultures within one's borders and beyond. This is Bilbeny's thesis and interest in this book, which will appeal to all those with an interest  in philosophy, politics and anthropology.

Formerly, too, being cosmopolitan represented a universalist alternative to the patriotic or domestic identity, which was rejected as “particularist”. Today, on the  other hand, one of the main justifications for cosmopolitanism is that it is from this perspective alone that different ethnicities and politics can be respected, and any action on an international scale, such as safeguarding the environment, will need such an open and cooperative mentality.  

About the author:

Norbert Bilbeny (Barcelona, 1953) is a philosopher and writer (Joan Estelrich award, and the Josep Pla and Anagrama awards). He has a Chair at the University of Barcelona,  where he directs a master's degree in Immigration and intercultural education. He is Tinker Fellow of the University of Chicago and has done research and given lectures at  Harvard, Berkeley other well-known universities.

Among his many publications (www.norbertbilbeny.com) we could mention in connection with the present work: Política sin Estado (“Stateless Politics”, 1998), Democracia para la diversidad (“Democracy for Diversity”, 1999), Por una causa común ( “For a Common Cause”, 2002) and Ética intercultural (“Intercultural Ethics”, 2004).