Sentence examples for cosmopolitan sphere from inspiring English sources
In Lovers in the Age of Indifference, the stories – written over a decade and more – trace a twisting journey from a rural China of myth and folk-tale through the country's frenzied cities into an cosmopolitan sphere of weightless travel and fitful intimacy, where loneliness becomes "a way of life".
Instead of appealing to an assumed common norm of "publicity" or a set of culturally specific practices of communication, a cosmopolitan public sphere is created when at least two culturally rooted public spheres begin to overlap and intersect, as when translations and conferences create a cosmopolitan public sphere in various academic disciplines.
Froese was born in 1944 in Tilsit, East Prussia – now the Russian city of Sovetsk – and has described growing up in a cosmopolitan post-war German cultural sphere in which he felt little attachment to national identity.
Kant also introduced the concept of "cosmopolitan law," suggesting a third sphere of public law — in addition to constitutional law and international law — in which both states and individuals have rights, and where individuals have these rights as "citizens of the earth" rather than as citizens of particular states.
Largely non-voluntary commonalities of belief, history, and custom compose necessary preconditions of any viable democracy, and since these commonalities are missing beyond the sphere of the nation-state, global or cosmopolitan democracy is doomed to fail (Archibugi, Held, and Koehler 1998).
But for the Westerners who venture out of their insular sphere, Dubai is not a place to fear - it's a rapidly growing international capital with a vibrant, cosmopolitan population.
If the planning sphere can adapt to the reality that we are actually a diverse group of people with even more diverse lifestyles, Helsinki has all the potential to become a cosmopolitan 21st century hotspot.
