ABSTRACT
We have witnessed in recent decades a revived interest in the political and social theory of cosmopolitanism, prompted both by the marked acceleration of globalization itself and by the corresponding need to adapt our conceptual, normative and empirical instruments for conceiving justice in an interdependent world. Alongside the mainstream theoretical renewal of Kantian strands of cosmopolitanisms in global justice and global democracy approaches (Pogge 2002; Archibugi and Held 2011), several other new approaches of cosmopolitanism have been advanced, some of them oxymoronic: ‘anchored’ (Dallmayr 2003), ‘embedded’ (Erskine 2008), ‘situated’ (Baynes 2007), ‘moderate’ (Scheffler 1999) and ‘statist’ (Ypi 2012). These as well as other cosmopolitan propositions are considered oxymoronic forms in that they try to reconcile the universal with the particular.
