ABSTRACT
The terms cosmopolitanism and globalization are now both undoubtedly central topics within the social sciences, each being used to diagnose some of the most important and pressing issues facing the whole world today. Understanding how the terms relate to each other is an important task, precisely because they are often put to work for similar purposes, namely probing the essential characteristics of the present age, and also – especially in the case of cosmopolitanism – seeking to change the world in normatively-guided ways.
