The Cosmopolis and the Void: Rethinking the Global Politics of Epicurean Tradition

• In Event: Insiders and Outsiders

Brief Overview

This paper argues that the Epicurean tradition – specifically the social contract theories of Epicurus and Democritus and the civic republican poetry of Lucretius – might be usefully reinterpreted as a source for contemporary cosmopolitanism.

Author

• William Dixon, Bard College