Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Globalization of risks, global capitalism, standardization of experience, the information society: so many contemporary signs that seem to associate globalization with the need for cosmopolitanism. If the world is establishing itself as a legitimate political space, it's because, for the first time in history, it has become a shared reality. But can we conclude from the "cosmopolitization of experience" (Ulrich Beck) to legal cosmopolitanism? Paradoxically, the cosmopolitical utopia has been exhausted by its partial realization: we have all become, albeit involuntarily, "citizens of the world". What are we to make of these processes which, while they seem to make a global policy necessary, also weaken the legal demands of cosmopolitanism? We will try to show that the global is not yet the world, and that a cosmopolitical democracy cannot be the simple logical consequence of globalization.

Speaker(s)

Michael Foessel

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Burgundy