ABSTRACT
Monological aspects of cosmopolitanism, such as the pragmatic, the cultural, the cognitive, and the aesthetic, serves individual desire and existential choice and impact otherness mainly indirectly. A cognitively inquisitive cosmopolitan spirit proves valuable especially with regards to moral and legal issues of cosmopolitanism. The cognitive aspect of cosmopolitanism is at the explicit level rather monological and only implicitly and optionally relational. All-Encompassing Conception of Cosmopolitanism argues that the order of ethical treatment and its extension in space and time are overlooked in current globalist discourse. This has blocked the theorization and possibility of a more praxis-oriented, eccentric qua self-critical and disinterested cosmopolitanism. Thus it narrowed the conceptual scope of cosmopolitanism down to pragmatic and culturalist aspects. Some theorists endorse the pragmatic as the cultural aspects of cosmopolitanism with an inflated enthusiasm that they level cosmopolitanism and globalization and lose sight of the gap between empirical reality and normative ideality.
