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Cosmopolitanism aspires to openness and universality, yet it is fraught with contradictions. While seeking to transcend borders, it has often concealed exclusions and hierarchies. This volume explores these tensions through literature and political philosophy, examining how writers and philosophers - from Camões to Woolf and Conrad, from Kant to Appiah - have engaged with belonging, power, and identity. Rather than a fixed ideal, cosmopolitanism emerges as a contested space, shaped by both connection and inequality. Cosmopolitanism aspires to openness and universality, yet it is fraught with contradictions. While seeking to transcend borders, it has often concealed exclusions and hierarchies. This volume explores these tensions through literature and political philosophy, examining how writers and philosophers - from Camões to Woolf and Conrad, from Kant to Appiah - have engaged with belonging, power, and identity. Rather than a fixed ideal, cosmopolitanism emerges as a contested space, shaped by both connection and inequality. Nuno Miguel ProençaThe »Lusiads effect«: a Tension Towards Imperialism or Cosmopolitanism?Pedro António Monteiro FrancoThe Ambiguous Cosmopolitanism of Joseph Conrad A Reading of Heart of DarknessMarco BucaioniHow Do You Say »Afropolitan« in Portuguese? African Literatures, Black-Portuguese Literature and AfropolitanismSara FernandesVirginia Wolf & the Cosmopolitan SelfSoraya Nour SckellThe Invention of the Self and of the Cosmos: Cosmology and Poetics of the Self in the Work of Paulo CardosoMárcio SuzukiWhat Does it Mean to be Cosmopolitan? A Note on the History of the ConceptHelena InácioThe Global Constitutionalization Undertaken by the United NationsLasha KharaziUnivocity and CosmopolitanismPedro António FrancoTradition and Cosmopolitanism in Alasdair MacIntyre and Kwame Anthony AppiahMarco RussoA Broad-Minded Way of Thinking. Cosmological Perspectives in Kantian Cosmopolitanism Soraya Nour Sckell is fullProfessor at the NOVA School of Law, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is researcher at CEDIS (NOVA School of Law) and at the Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon. She is the Principal Investigator of the Project »Cosmopolitanism: Justice, Democracy and Citizenship without Borders« (PTDC/FER-FIL/30686/2017). She received the Wolfgang Kaupen-Preis (German Society for Sociology, section Sociology of Law, 2018) and the German-French Friendship Prize (Ambassy of Germany in Paris, 2012). She has obtained a PhD in Philosophy from the University Paris Nanterre and the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (thesis in cotutela, 2012) and a PhD in Law from the University of Sao Paulo (USP, 1999). She has done post-doc research at the Universities of Saint Louis (SLU), Nanterre, Frankfurt a.M. and Berlin (Humboldt University) and taught at the Universities of São Paulo (USP), Munich, Metz, Lille, and Lisbon, as well as at the University Portucalense. She has been director of the research program on cosmopolitanism at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris (2013-2019) and she is the vice-president of the Association Humboldt France.Rui Sousa is a researcher in Group 1 of the Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures (CLEPUL). He holds a Master's degree in Modern and Contemporary Portuguese Literature (2009) and a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (2019) from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lisbon. He contributed to the volume '1915: O Ano do Orpheu' (ed. Steffen Dix) and collaborates with the journal 'Pessoa Plural', as well as with events organized by the 'Estranhar Pessoa' project and the 'Casa Fernando Pessoa'.
