If we are flâneurs , can we be cosmopolitans?
探讨本雅明和波德莱尔笔下的漫游者形象能否代表世界公民，认为漫游者更多是文化意义上的世界公民，而非道德意义上的，需要从超然观察转向跨文化参与才能实现世界公民的理想。
Walter Benjamin’s and Charles Baudelaire’s personage of the flâneur can be interpreted as a representation of the ambivalent attraction to the strange and unknown in the experience of anonymous city life, so characteristic for the modern age. To what extent can we interpret this role of the flâneur – given its essential qualities in these writings – as a representation of world citizenship? The thesis is that the flâneur is more a cosmopolitan in the cultural than in the moral sense of the term. To live up to the demanding moral ideal of world citizenship, the flâneur needs to change: from detached observation to more meaningful forms of inter-cultural engagement. Hence the flâneur offers some clues for the kind of ethos that is required for a cosmopolitan subjectivity as well as for how it falls short.