Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel

N o t e s

INTRODUCTION: COSMOPOLITANISM, ETHICS,

AND MATERIALISM

1. E m m a n u e l L e v i n a s , Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority , trans.
   Alphonso Lingis (London: Martinus Nijhoff, 1979), p. 50.


2. I b i d.


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4. Ibid., p. 51.


5. Sheldon Pollock, “Cosmopolitanisms,” in Cosmopolitanism , ed. Carol
   A. Breckenridge et al. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002),
   pp. 1–14 (p. 12).


6. David Held, “Building Cosmopolitanism for Another Age,” in
   Conceiving Cosmopolitanism: Theory, Context and Practice , ed. Steven
   Vertovec and Robin Cohen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003),
   pp. 48–60 (p. 58).


7. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
   Strangers (London: Penguin, 2007), p. xii.


8. Pollock, “Cosmopolitanisms,” p. 1.


9. I b i d.


10. See Sheldon Pollock, “Cosmopolitanism and the Vernacular in History,”
    in Cosmopolitanism , ed. Carol A. Breckenridge et al. (Durham: Duke
    University Press, 2002), pp. 15–53 (p. 22).


11. Ibid., p. 29.
    1 2. M i t c h e l l A b o u l a f i a , Transcendence: On Self-Determination and
    Cosmopolitanism (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), p. 159.
    1 3. B e c k w i t h c o n t e n d s t h a t t h e comitatus is the chief social practice
    that illustrates shared cultural affiliation among Eurasian peoples,
    evidencing more intercultural exchange than has been previously
    understood—see Christopher I. Beckwith, Empires of the Silk Road: A
    History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present (Princeton
    and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009), p. 12.