Cosmopolitanism and Exile: An Uncertain Affinity

Galin Tihanov

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236201

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Galin Tihanov. Cosmopolitanism and Exile: An Uncertain Affinity[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 7-25. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236201

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Galin Tihanov. Cosmopolitanism and Exile: An Uncertain Affinity[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 7-25. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236201

Galin Tihanov. Cosmopolitanism and Exile: An Uncertain Affinity[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 7-25. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236201

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Galin Tihanov. Cosmopolitanism and Exile: An Uncertain Affinity[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 7-25. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236201

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Cosmopolitanism and Exile: An Uncertain Affinity

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236201

Galin Tihanov^,

Queen Mary University of London

Received Date: 2023-05-14
Accepted Date: 2023-06-10

Abstract

Abstract

In philosophy, literature, and the arts, the cosmopolitan tends to be defined chiefly with reference to a particular ethos(often individual rather than collective) of openness to what is non-familiar and alien, and on a particular range of values, such as tolerance, hospitality, cultural and intellectual curiosity. I insist, however, that cosmopolitanism is not a homogeneous concept. In this article, I draw a distinction between political cosmopolitanism, on the one hand, and cultural cosmopolitanism, on the other. Arguably, these two types of cosmopolitanism, far from being identical, have disparate values that do not always coincide. I seek to demonstrate that exile and cosmopolitanism abide in a relationship that is far less straightforward than habitually assumed:the best way to describe this relationship is perhaps to refer to exile and cosmopolitanism as bound by a rather uncertain affinity. In the introductory part of this article I explore various meanings of the word "cosmopolitanism" and attempt to attain finer granularity by identifying two different strands within what has long been taken to be a unitary discourse.¹ In the second part, I discuss the complex relationship(often also divergence) between the two types of cosmopolitanism-political and cultural-that I identify in the Introduction. I do so by analysing a set of examples drawn from the work of left-leaning European Jewish exiles and their experience of cosmopolitans without a polis. What is at stake throughout my analysis is a deeper understanding of cosmopolitanism, both as a desideratum but also as a discourse that harbours inner contradictions, and also an attempt to revisit the way we think about how the experience of exile relates to cosmopolitan attitudes and practices.
- cosmopolitanism,
- exile,
- discourse,
- uncertain affinity

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