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Reflections on Oppression, Domination, and The Humble Cosmopolitan


This brief response to The Humble Cosmopolitan centers on Luis Cabrera’s defense of an individualistic conception of trans-state democracy against illiberal nationalist claims of self-determination. While I acknowledge the force of Cabrera’s critique as applied to “dominant” nationalisms and similar group-based dominations, I am curious as to how far Cabrera’s critique can accommodate “subaltern” nationalisms and related claims to group autonomy. The latter, I imply, can be defended on both instrumental and intrinsic grounds. Regarding the book’s analytic framework, I am curious as to how far Cabrera’s concepts of cosmopolitan humility and national-state arrogance can be reduced to concepts of global and national justice and injustice. The latter terms, I suggest, are at least partial substitutes for the former.