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published on March 12, 2021
Bengt Kristensson Uggla
https://doi.org/10.5840/ecoethica20213529
Citizen of the World
Peter Kemp and the Hermeneutics of the Cosmopolitan Self
This text is dedicated to the memory of Peter Kemp (1937¨C2018) and his later philosophical project cultivating citizens of the world as a response to globalization. Inspired by Grundtvig, he developed world-citizenship from a post-post-national perspective, combining the aim for the equality of the people with equality of all mankind. In this presentation, Kemp is recognized as a ¡°struggling¡± philosopher according to Ricoeur¡¯s critical hermeneutics. As a horizon of understanding, the author brings in a discussion on the anthropological deficit of the new competition state (Ove Kaj Pedersen), generated by the shift from a moral determination of the self to an opportunistic economic man wholly motivated by self-interest and utility maximization. Conclusively, it is being argued that Kemp¡¯s way of introducing Ricoeur into the field of education, by transforming his hermeneutics of the self into a hermeneutics of the cosmopolitan self, has simultaneously revealed how much Ricoeur is a profound universalistic thinker.