Cosmopolitan Imagination - The Renewal of Critical Social Theory

Informationen zum Autor Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought at the University of Sussex. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive assessment of the idea of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. Gerard Delanty aims to distinguish cosmopolitanism from related concepts such as transnationalism and globalization! and claims that cosmopolitan analysis must take into account non-western expressions of cosmopolitanism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The rise and decline of classical cosmopolitanism; 2. Contemporary cosmopolitanism and social theory; 3. Global ethics, solidarity and the problem of violence; 4. Cosmopolitan citizenship and the post-sovereign state; 5. Multiculturalism from a cosmopolitan perspective; 6. Religion in a cosmopolitan society; 7. Cosmopolitanism, modernity and global history; 8. Cosmopolitanism and European political community; 9. Europe as a borderland; 10. Conclusion: intercultural dialogue in a post-western world.

Product details

• Authors: Gerard Delanty, Gerard (University of Sussex) Delanty, Delanty Gerard
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521695459
• ISBN: 978-0-521-69545-9
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Political science & theory, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism