Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Lee Trepanier and Khalil M. Habib -- Socratic self-examination: cosmopolitanism, imperialism, or citizenship / Mary P. Nichols -- Roman cosmopolitanism: the stoics and Cicero / Thomas L. Pangle -- Aquinas's mediated cosmopolitanism and the impasse of ancient political philosophy / John von Heyking -- Ibn Tufayl's critique of cosmopolitanism in Hayy Ibn Yaqzan / Khalil M. Habib -- Kant's teaching of historical progress and its cosmopolitan goal / Mary P. Nichols -- Infinite personality and finite custom: Hegel, Socrates, Daimon, and the modern state / Richard Velkley -- An introduction to Martin Heidegger: radical-committed anticosmopolitanism / Michael Palmer -- Alexandre Kojève: cosmopolitanism at the end of history / Gaelen Murphy -- The postmodern condition of cosmopolitanism / Lee Trepanier -- Madison and republican cosmopolitanism / Luigi Bradizza -- Lincoln's reflective patriotism: an alternative to nationalism and cosmopolitanism / Joseph R. Fornieri -- Tocqueville, Cicero, Augustine, and the limits of the polis / L. Joseph Hebert Jr -- European dreamin: democratic astigmatism and its sources / Paul Seaton -- Cosmopolitanism for thee but not for me: big and small countries in the modern era of monetary nationalism / Brian Domitrovic.