cosmopolitanism

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Today, the phrase suggests Mitteleuropa, the borderless, multilingual cosmopolitanism of pre-1914 Europe; the world of yesterday, as the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig called it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

A concerted campaign has cropped up seemingly overnight to turn Mamdani’s victory into an opportunity to attack cosmopolitanism.

From Salon • Jun. 26, 2025

Mr Suraiya spiritedly defended the magazine: "JS spoke to a certain urban educated cultural sensibility that was in a sense, Westernised, but it was shaping a distinctly Indian cosmopolitanism".

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

"Ostelsheim has set a clear example, and in that sense has also made history. Also a strong signal for cosmopolitanism, for tolerance," he said, adding he might never have had such chances in Syria.

From Reuters • Apr. 5, 2023

Our other felicitous example of cosmopolitanism is Henry Blake Fuller, the author of The Chevalier Pensieri Vani and The Châtelaine de la Trinité, who was so widely read in the nineties.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James