ABSTRACT
This introduction opens with a contrast between the spirit of a monk’s pilgrimage, in ancient times, from China to India and modern globalisation’s spreading of consumer culture. After probing how influential liberal thinkers imagine tolerance and diversity, the chapter turns to foreshadow the core argument. It introduces ‘deep cosmopolitanism’, then explains how this book will trace its maturing over the centuries before modernity. Rediscovering it today has profound implications for how we think about what it means to be a citizen of the world.
