Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment

Introduction: cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment Joan-Pau Rubies and Neil Safier; 1. Enlightenment cosmopolitanism in perspective: diversity, natural law and reason in the work of John Locke Daniel Carey; 2. The Cosmopolitan paradox: travel, anthropology and the problem cultural diversity in early modern thought Joan-Pau Rubies; 3. Diderot's philosophical history and the history of 'monstrous nature' Girolamo Imbruglia; 4. Geographies of cosmopolitanism: cartography, natural history and indigenous knowledge in the long eighteenth century Neil Safier; 5. The imperial, global (cosmopolitan) dimensions of non-elite colonial scribal cultures in the early modern Iberian Atlantic Jorge Canizares-Esguerra; 6. Gendered Cosmopolitanism? The history of women and the science of man in the Scottish enlightenment Silvia Sebastiani; 7. Cosmopolitanism and the creation of patriotic identities in the European enlightenment: the case of Pietro Napoli Signorelli and his Storia critica de' teatri antichi e moderni Melissa Calaresu; 8. A Cosmopolitanism of countervailing powers: resistance against global domination in the political thought of Immanuel Kant and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano Sankar Muthu; 9. Cosmopolitanism and civil war David Armitage; Afterword: cosmopolitanism and its discontents Anthony Pagden.