Ask Martha Nussbaum, the noted Princeton Humanist (rather, read her books) about cosmopolitanism, and she will tell you that it's a love for the planet.
It used to be that a cosmopolitan would identify her primary affiliation with the globe, or humanity at large, instead of with narrow ethnicities or nations.
Today's cosmopolitans have no national boundaries either, but according to the Dissent Magazine, they pitch their tents in brand-name goods and expensive experiences that can be bought in such global cities as Zurich, New York, (posher parts of) London, Dubai, Shanghai, not in any modicum of shared humanity.
A dismal cosmopolitanism it is.
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