Toward a Rhetorical Cosmopolitanism: Stoics, Kant, and the Challenges of European Integration

Advances in the History of Rhetoric Apr 2011

Toward a Rhetorical Cosmopolitanism: Stoics, Kant, and the Challenges of European Integration

Alessandra Beasley Von Burg

Abstract

ABSTRACTIn this article, I present a mode of cosmopolitanism that builds on Stoic and Kantian views toward not just rational cosmopolitan agents but rhetorical ones. I outline a new rhetorical approach to cosmopolitanism that addresses the challenge of “otherness.” This rhetorical cosmopolitanism focuses on the conditions for deliberative and participatory practices that bring us before others; it seeks to help us recognize that the way we develop actual—and not just abstract—political relationships to others is fundamentally rhetorical, not just rational or emotional. I explore the debates over the inclusion of minorities in the European Union, particularly focusing on the Muslim population, in order to outline a rhetorical cosmopolitanism that accounts for the place of emotions in discourses of citizenship.

Journal: Advances in the History of Rhetoric
Published: 2011-04-15
DOI: 10.1080/15362426.2011.559407
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