Resumen de Cosmopolitanisms as a new perspective in an updated journey to utopia
In the first theoretical part, the reasons why we witness a revival of utopian thoughtand why cosmopolitanism in our contemporary time has become an important issue isdiscussed. Cosmopolitanism accepts the challenge of globalization and contrasts dangerousphenomena such as the crisis of democracies, racism and xenophobia, amongothers. In the second part, the hermeneutic and symbolic meaning of the voyage inthe utopian tradition is pointed out, focusing on the peculiar cosmopolitan attitude ofthe utopian traveller. The key “traveller-character” uses this perspective being a sortof link between the old and the new world, and because he is ambiguously set in andout of utopia. In the third part, this particular feature of the character as a cosmopolitantraveller is examined in Thomas More’s Utopia and Francis Bacon’s The NewAtlantis. Within this scenario, it will be argued that the utopian genre is strictly connectedwith travel literature and imaginary voyage, and that there is a precise intertextualitybetween them. Utopian literature is a hybrid genre between fiction andreality, between anthropology and history of ideas that encourages the difficult butalluring contamination between different subjects, favouring dialogue and exchange.Accordingly, utopia is in its essence interdisciplinary.
