Cosmoliteratures: Cosmopolitanisms in Literatures, Literatures in Cosmopolitanisms

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.

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 ist Forscher in Gruppe 1 des Centre for Lusophone and European Literatures and Cultures (CLEPUL). Er hat einen Masterabschluss in Moderner und Zeitgenössischer Portugiesischer Literatur (2009) sowie einen Doktortitel in Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften (2019) von der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften der Universität Lissabon. Er hat zum Band -1915: O Ano do Orpheü (hg. von Steffen Dix) beigetragen und arbeitet mit der Zeitschrift -Pessoa Plural- sowie mit Veranstaltungen des Projekts -Estranhar Pessoä und der Casa Fernando Pessoa zusammen.

Nuno Miguel Proença The 'Lusiads effect': a Tension Towards Imperialism or Cosmopolitanism?
Pedro António Monteiro Franco The Ambiguous Cosmopolitanism of Joseph Conrad A Reading of Heart of Darkness
Marco Bucaioni How Do You Say 'Afropolitan' in Portuguese? African Literatures, Black-Portuguese Literature and Afropolitanism
Sara Fernandes Virginia Wolf & the Cosmopolitan Self
Soraya Nour Sckell The Invention of the Self and of the Cosmos: Cosmology and Poetics of the Self in the Work of Paulo Cardoso
Márcio Suzuki What Does it Mean to be Cosmopolitan? A Note on the History of the Concept
Helena Inácio The Global Constitutionalization Undertaken by the United Nations
Lasha Kharazi Univocity and Cosmopolitanism
Pedro António Franco Tradition and Cosmopolitanism in Alasdair MacIntyre and Kwame Anthony Appiah
Marco Russo A Broad-Minded Way of Thinking. Cosmological Perspectives in Kantian Cosmopolitanism