Book chapter
Cosmopolitanism Beyond the Polis: Creative Memory Works and Reimaging the Relationship between Xenia and Hestia
Beyond Cosmopolitanism: Towards Platetary Transformations, pp.53-70
Palgrave Macmillan
2018
Abstract
At the center of the cosmopolitan impulse is the instinctive need to belong. Using the Ancient Greek pre-polis deification of the hearth (hestia), a space of connectivity, this chapter traces the understanding of self as an ever widening progression toward belonging. Belonging is not singular, and the focus on the pre-polis Ancient Greek concept of the goddess Hestia, and her realm of the hearth, provides a foundation for understanding the multiplicity of belonging. This chapter suggests a move away from the polis-centric mentality of the 'outsider' to a more hestia-centric perspective of inclusion and cooperation.
Details
- Title
- Cosmopolitanism Beyond the Polis: Creative Memory Works and Reimaging the Relationship between Xenia and Hestia
- Authors
- Ginna Brock (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Contributors
- A Giri (Editor)
- Publication details
- Beyond Cosmopolitanism: Towards Platetary Transformations, pp.53-70
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date published
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-10-5376-4_4
- ISBN
- 9789811053757
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450568102621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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