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  • 5 - The Imperial, Global (Cosmopolitan) Dimensions of Nonelite Colonial Scribal Cultures in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic

  • Edited by Joan-Pau Rubiés, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Neil Safier, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment
    Published online:
    16 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023, pp 144-176

  • Summary

    If one considers the Kantian cosmopolitan to be the result of political and cultural forces specific to Western European societies, then it is no more than a situated form of local knowledge. There were other forms of local globalism that were as situated as the Kantian cosmopolitan. The difference is that the forms of Catholic local globalism that I discuss here never became normative and universal. Moreover, the forms of local globalism explored in this essay never acquired the geopolitical epistemological authority to cast Kant as a parochial Prussian whose ideas were no more than one version of local globalism. In an unexpected turn, the Enlightenment notion of the cosmopolitan acquires the epistemological authority to cast the Black, nuns, and Indigenous intellectuals explored in this piece as parochial and local. This essay offers an alternative to early-modern forms of the local “cosmopolitan,” namely, individuals who often did travel physically more than Kant, with the exception of a few nuns who, like our Prussian, imagined the globe as a whole by firmly staying in one place.