To a very large degree, the modern political landscape in the United States and across the world is shaped by divergent attitudes towards cosmopolitanism. Kosmos means the “order” of the world, the world as “universe” rather than as chaos, and was used in Greek philosophical and poetic literature in reference to the entirety of reality, divine, celestia…
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