Abstract:This essay examines contemporary theorizations of intellectual scale, by asking how we can move, with integrity, from particular experiences to universal claims. To do so, I return to the "Fool's Cap Map," an allegorical print from the early modern period and show how the image goes beyond traditional tropes of macrocosm and microcosm by invoking and inventing a cosmopolitan critical subjectivity. This, I argue, can be a model for rethinking the relations between the global and the local, the universal and the particular. The essay offers an alternate genealogy for cosmopolitanism rooted in the figurative power of aesthetic objects and their local, transnational networks of production and dissemination, and demonstrates how we might reconstruct intellectual and cultural histories of key terms such as "world" in ways that go beyond binary oppositions, drawing together, instead, the singular and the abstract whole in dialectical relation.

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如何理论化“世界”：早期的现代宣言

摘要：本文通过询问我们如何才能完整地从特殊经历转变为普遍主张，来考察当代知识分子规模的理论。为此，我返回“愚人节地图”，这是近代早期的寓言版画，通过调用和发明一种国际性的批判性主观性，展示了图像如何超越传统的宏观和微观世界。我认为，这可以成为重新考虑全球与地方，普遍与特殊之间关系的模型。这篇文章为世界主义提供了另一种谱系，其起源于审美对象及其本地，跨国生产和传播网络的象征性力量，并说明了我们如何重建诸如“世界”等关键术语的知识和文化历史