Cosmopolitanism and Its Relevant Issues in Post-Theoretical Context: A Review of Tracing Global Democracy: Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma

With the increasing rise of global problems, cosmopolitanism has become one of the hot topics in contemporary academics. In Tracing Global Democracy: Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma, Vladimir Biti claims that, to a large degree, the concept cosmopolitanism is derived from the personal or national traumatic experience, and explores the conception of cosmopolitanism and its impact on the European and non -European culture, politics and democracy. As an alternative, he calls for a "dispossessed cosmopolitanism", which refers to the dispossessed belonging outside the established political space, aiming to maintain the form of dissensual politics and to reexamine nationalism, patriotism and democracy accordingly.