Conference
Nexus Conference 1999 -
8 October 1999
9.35 – 21.45
Tilburg University
No Place for Cosmopolitans?
Cosmopolitanism presupposes transcendent values which are known to all, independent of their nationality; values of which nobody can claim ownership, and which can be expressed in different languages, forms, and cultures. Cosmopolitanism is not a political concept: it is a way of life. Has cosmopolitanism vanished as an ideal? If it has, what have we lost exactly? And can we still recover it? Which contemporary social phenomena might we understand better through a debate on the need for cosmopolitanism? What are the implications of the cosmopolitan ideal for our politics, culture, and human identity?
Speakers
Yoeri Albrecht
Candace Allen
Mark Anderson
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Pierre Audi
Samuel Brussell
Roberto Calasso
Mitchell Cohen
Aleksa Djilas
Otto von der Gablentz
Moshe Halbertal
Pierre Hassner
Michael Ignatieff
Allan Janik
Ruud Lubbers
Marina Mahler
Alberto Manguel
Paul Mendes-Flohr
Adam Zagajewski
Emily D. Bilski
Gabriel Motzkin
Hans Maarten van den Brink
Ad Geelhoed
Bronislaw Geremek
Ronald de Leeuw
Pavel Tigrid
Julian Reynolds
Sarat Maharaj
