Cosmopolitanism in Time
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In recent years, there has been a shift from cosmopolitanism in its mostfamiliar form, which is spatial and normative putting—the welfare ofthose outside the borders of your nation on the same moral plane as thewelfare of your fellow citizens—toward a sort of temporal cosmopolitanism:an expansion of the time-scale to make room for the more distantpast, including the distant past of distant places. An expansion of timescale,or temporal cosmopolitanism, is an inevitable result of the spatialor geographical cosmopolitanism with which we are more familiar. Whateffect does this “cosmopolitanism in time” have on ethical judgment?What effect might it tend to have on now unacceptable divisions between“civilization” and “barbarism”? This essay takes up these questions byexamining Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence and how it is treated inMilan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and David Mitchell’sCloud Atlas. I argue that Milan Kundera, Nietzsche, Margaret Atwood,and David Mitchell illustrate their thesis about temporal cosmopolitanism,and conclude that the “cynical permissiveness” that Kunderadeduces from linear, irreversible time might also be detected in the standardoperating procedures of the humanities.
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In recent years, there has been a shift from cosmopolitanism in its mostfamiliar form, which is spatial and normative putting—the welfare ofthose outside the borders of your nation on the same moral plane as thewelfare of your fellow citizens—toward a sort of temporal cosmopolitanism:an expansion of the time-scale to make room for the more distantpast, including the distant past of distant places. An expansion of timescale,or temporal cosmopolitanism, is an inevitable result of the spatialor geographical cosmopolitanism with which we are more familiar. Whateffect does this “cosmopolitanism in time” have on ethical judgment?What effect might it tend to have on now unacceptable divisions between“civilization” and “barbarism”? This essay takes up these questions byexamining Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence and how it is treated inMilan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being and David Mitchell’sCloud Atlas. I argue that Milan Kundera, Nietzsche, Margaret Atwood,and David Mitchell illustrate their thesis about temporal cosmopolitanism,and conclude that the “cynical permissiveness” that Kunderadeduces from linear, irreversible time might also be detected in the standardoperating procedures of the humanities.
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