Cosmos and nomos: cosmopolitanism in art and political philosophy

In this article I address the tensions between normative political philosophy and aesthetic cosmopolitanism. Jurgen Habermas Jacques Derrida have been two of most influential philosophers to engage with ethical questions has drawn on foundations established by Immanuel Kant set out define an institutional framework that could secure rights people in age mobility. Derrida’s emphasis is more heavily slanted relations rather than geo-political structures. He reversed Kant’s starting point, placing exposure other necessity hospitality as basis freedom truth. While both developed their working close touch Kant, transcendental aspects his thinking now totally absent contemporary debates. As a general rule averted its gaze from cosmos, generally it be noted bracketed founding philosophical concepts aesthetics physis. The focus mostly terrain anthropos, polis nomos. short, discussion begins ends within parameters By contrast, artists pioneering modernists like Malevich figures such Saraceno never abandoned quest for cosmogony. orientation cosmopolitanism appears co-exist wider claim belonging cosmos. contrast scope order reframe spheres connections thought.