"Cosmopolitan – A Handbook for Citizens of the World Volume I" is the first part of a three-volume essay that directly and critically addresses the topic of cosmopolitanism, understood as a political, cultural, and social model in which human beings recognize themselves as citizens of a single world-nation.
The author highlights how globalization tends to standardize consumption and lifestyles without addressing cultural and identity barriers, while cosmopolitanism proposes radical change, grounded in a global collective consciousness.
The book does not present cosmopolitanism as a perfect system or a definitive solution to human problems, but as a possible, realistic, and fallible model, capable of amplifying both the positive and negative aspects of coexistence.
The author openly declares the provocative nature of the project: the text seeks to question taken-for-granted values, expose social hypocrisies, and stimulate critical awareness. The deliberately colloquial and direct style aims to make complex concepts accessible to a broad audience, without attenuating the most uncomfortable or conflictual aspects.
