ABSTRACT
David Harvey's (2000) essay "Cosmopolitanism and the Banality of Geographical Evils" discusses broad divisions, nuances, and meanings for thinking about the new millennium. He argues that social divisions negate any unifying ethic in thinking about global economic, ecological, and political changes. Harvey offers a historical-geographical theory about institutional and structural change to radically undo the false separation of the universal and the particular by reconstructing the cosmopolitan outlook. In the end, Harvey's cosmopolitanism renews the normative project of the universal that he suggests others have gotten incorrect.
