orlovets (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} orlovets) wrote,@ 2008-07-02 14:10:00 |
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Cosmopolitanism to come
"What binds me to an Iraqi or a Palestinian is not a membership of humanity, citizenship of the world or of a community but a protest against citizenship, against nationality and thick community... What binds my world to that of others is our absolute singularity and total responsibility beyond citizen and human, beyond national and international. The cosmos to come is the world of each unique one, of however or anyone; the polis, the infinite number of encounters of singularity. The cosmopolitanism to come is neither the achievement of humanity nor a federation of nations; neither a constitutional arrangement nor an alliance of classes... The principle of cosmopolitanism to come: the other as singular, unique finite being putting me in touch with infinite otherness, the other in me and myself in the other..."
"What binds me to an Iraqi or a Palestinian is not a membership of humanity, citizenship of the world or of a community but a protest against citizenship, against nationality and thick community... What binds my world to that of others is our absolute singularity and total responsibility beyond citizen and human, beyond national and international. The cosmos to come is the world of each unique one, of however or anyone; the polis, the infinite number of encounters of singularity. The cosmopolitanism to come is neither the achievement of humanity nor a federation of nations; neither a constitutional arrangement nor an alliance of classes... The principle of cosmopolitanism to come: the other as singular, unique finite being putting me in touch with infinite otherness, the other in me and myself in the other..."
Costas Douzinas,
Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism
Human Rights and Empire: The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism
