Citizenship and Cosmosystem: an Essay on the Theory and Citizenship Typology
Citoyenneté et cosmosystème : Essais d’une théorie et d’une typologie de la citoyenneté

Summary/Abstract: The concept of citizen means primarily an origin and status, which determine the nature of the relationship, placing the individual in a concrete social entity. The reference to the city implies that the quality of a citizen is only compatible to the very type of society whose existence and foundation depend on the individual, who is recognised as its immediate constituent and hetairos. In contrast, affirming its anthropocentric nature, the city - and by extension its politeia - establishes a direct link between the notion of citizen and the constitutive basis of anthropocentrism, namely freedom. This comparative retrospective identifies citizenship at the interface between the traditional industrial era and the technological society. Everything seems to indicate that the trend is for the individual to move towards the status of freedom and hetairia able to promote more advanced forms of citizenship in the context of a second state-centric period, i.e. within the systems of relative sovereign power that announce the dynamics of technological reconstruction of social evolution and the “globalisation” of anthropocentric cosmosystem.

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