The intellectual history of cosmopolitanism. Volume two 1800-2010: Challenges of globalization

Applying for a three month mobility grant in connection with volume two of The Intellectual History of Cosmopolitanism. This is an anthology edoted by Jakobsen presenting major texts in cosmopolitan political thought, in Norwegian translation, with detail ed introductions and annotations. In his introductions Jakobsen seeks to bring together three fields of knowledge; cosmopolitanism as a tradition in political thought, the theory of globalization and, finally, global history, that is the history of bygone globalisms. The first volume, taking the story from the stoics to Kant, was published in November 2009. Volume two will be published in early 2011. German language writers are amply represented in the selection. There is a chapter on the theory of transl ation and cultural otherness stemming from German Romanticism and neohumanism (Herder, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Goethe) and there is Alexander Humboldt, Marx, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Kelsen, Arendt, Habermas, Beck, Brunkhorst). Verdensborgerskapets idéhistorie thus provides the occasion to translate for the first time into Norwegian major texts of cultero-political thought by Wieland and Kant (Volume one) and Herder and the Humboldt brothers (volume two). Though global in scope, the project is European in style of thought. The EU and the intellectual history of European cooperation, since the utopias of Henry 4, Sully and Crucé in the 17th century, is a major focus.