Early Modern Cosmopolitanism?

The word ‘cosmopolitanism’ derives from an ancient Greek term meaning ‘citizen of the world’, and in its broadest sense captures ‘a receptive and open attitude towards the other’ (Kendall et al., 1). There is, however, no standard definition of cosmopolitanism spanning across academic disciplines and political discourses. Inadvertently, the indeterminacy of this term has led to the creation of a near-empty signifier that can stand for almost any given cross-cultural or universalising context.