ABSTRACT
The conclusion reflects on the risk that today’s global consumer culture, devoid of a value-centred political vision that builds on the best of the past, will turn into a stagnant technocracy. Deep cosmopolitanism is not only a view of history; it also offers a rich language for an alternative global future. In a more speculative way, it also links this logic to premodern and contemporary thinking on common ground that might exist between human beings and any other intelligent species in the cosmos.
