Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Axis: Agencies and/or Enablers -- Part I: Toward a Global Community: The Emergence of the Modern Idea of Literature -- 1 The Divided Legacy of the Republic of Letters: Emancipation and Trauma -- 2 The Fissured Identity of Literature: National Universalism and/or Cosmopolitan Nationalism -- 2.1 Intertwined opposites -- 2.2 The emergence of the national literary historiography -- 2.3 Cosmopolitan patriot and democratic tyrant: Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- 2.4 Who is authorized to represent "natural communities"? -- 2.5 Identification by alienation -- 3 The Janus Face of Literary Bildung: Education and/or Self-Formation? -- 3.1 "Having the other" and "being the other" -- 3.2 Differences between the Bildung concepts -- 3.3 Mirroring and interweaving -- 3.4 Resolving ambiguity, instituting difference -- 4 Who Voices Universal History? Kant's "Mankind" and/or Herder's "Nature" -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Kant's advocacy ofmankind -- 4.3 Herder's advocacy of nature -- 5 Who Worlds the Literature? Goethe's Weltliteratur and Globalization -- 5.1 Comparative literature as the promoter of globalization -- 5.2 Goethe's detachment from globalization -- 5.3 Getting out of the crowd: Goethe's elitist cosmopolitanism -- 5.4 The acting out of the traumatic experience -- 5.5 A retroactive reinvestment of Goethe's cosmopolitanism -- 5.6 Goethe's trauma narrative: Repositioning German literature -- 5.7 Fromexemption to expansion: Toward the Roman imperial cosmopolitanism -- 5.8 Translating the "iron law of kinship" into the "free competition of values": The U.S.-American trauma narrative -- Part II: An Observer under Observation: The Cosmopolitan Legacy of Modern Theory.

6 Interiorizing the Exteriority: The Cosmopolitan Authorization of the Theoretical Truth -- 7 The Narrative of Permanent Displacement: Early German Romanticism and Its Theoretical Afterlife -- 7.1 Reappropriating the early Romanticist legacy -- 7.2 The pattern of irritated overcoming: the entangled opponents -- 7.3 Literature against philosophy: Niklas Luhmann's autopoietic turn -- 7.4 Passionately commited to the memory of the whole -- 7.5 The European entangled legacy -- 7.6 The novel as the epitome of evolutionarynecessity -- 8 The Oppositional Literary Transcendental: The Russian Formalist Rewriting of Early Romanticist Cosmopolitanism -- 8.1 The post-imperial hyphenation and early Romanticist legacy -- 8.2 Literature's persistent self-exemption - modern literary theory's cosmopolitan operation -- 8.3 The resurgence of the disempowered law -- 8.4 Unleashing the force of self-exemption -- 9 The All-DevouringModern Mind: Bakhtin's Cosmopolitan Self -- 9.1 Confronting mind with self-displacing life -- 9.2 A utopian cosmopolitan community -- 9.3 The authorial operation: expanding the self by consummating the others -- 9.4 A counterfactual compensatory project -- 9.5 The divine and the devalued other - a constitutive interdependency -- 10 Countering the Empirical Evidence: From Immigrant Cosmopolitanism to a Cosmopolitanism of the Disregarded -- 10.1 Abstracting from natural transcendentals -- 10.2 Dis/empowering the cosmopolitan police -- 10.3 At the empowering service of a powerless victim: Emmanuel Levinas -- 10.4 The disabling enablement of the theorist:Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault -- 10.5 Empowering the literary transcendental: Jacques Derrida -- 11 Political and/or Literary Community: From Class to Messianic Cosmopolitanism -- 11.1 Singularity - a European mission?.

11.2 The class cosmopolitanismof Cultural Studies -- 11.3 Cruelly attached to unfathomable singularity -- 11.4 The counter-narrative of singularity -- 11.5 Vanishing mediation -- 12 Literature as Deterritorialization: New Vistas for Democracy? -- 12.1 Gilles Deleuze: emancipation through dehumanization -- 12.2 Jacques Rancière: emancipation through deregulation -- 12.3 Reintroducing the agent of universality: politics turned into police -- Epilogue. The Practice of Recommencing: Toward a Cosmopolitanism of the Dispossessed Belonging -- References -- Index.