Introduction -- Toward a global community: the emergence of the modern idea of literature. The divided legacy of the Republic of Letters: emancipation and trauma -- The fissured identity of literature: national universalism and/or cosmopolitan...
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Introduction -- Toward a global community: the emergence of the modern idea of literature. The divided legacy of the Republic of Letters: emancipation and trauma -- The fissured identity of literature: national universalism and/or cosmopolitan nationalism -- The Janus face of literary bildung: education and/or self-formation? -- Who voices universal history? Kant's "Mankind" and/or Herder's "Nature" -- Who worlds the literature? Goethe's weltliteratur and globalization -- An observer under observation: the cosmopolitan legacy of modern theory. Interiorizing the exteriority: the cosmopolitan authorization of the theoretical truth -- The narrative of permanent displacement: early German romanticism and its theoretical afterlife -- The oppositional literary transcendental: the Russian formalist rewriting of early romanticist cosmopolitanism -- The all-devouring modern mind: Bakhtin's cosmopolitan self -- Countering the empirical evidence: from immigrant cosmopolitanism to a cosmopolitanism of the disregarded -- Political and/or literary community: from class to messianic cosmopolitanism -- Literature as deterritorialization: new vistas for democracy? -- Epilogue
