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. Today it is still too often the case that cosmopolitan political thinking remains overly relatively disconnected from understandings of globalization and globality, even though it makes sense to understand the latter as generating, or at least making possible, the former, and its embodiments in actual institutions and practices. Reconsidering the history of cosmopolitan thinking demonstrates that connecting cosmopolitan theoretical considerations with globalizing empirical actualities was already a concern of the classical thinkers. The valuable lesson the people need to learn from them is that the politics of cosmos need always to be considered in light of the empirical processes that both go on across the globe, and which render it into one distinct, but vastly multiplicitous and heterogeneous, entity.
