ISBN:
9780745633992
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (212 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Cosmopolitan Vision
DDC:
303.482
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as migration, war and terror, as well as a range of literary and historical works, to weave a rich discursive web in which analytical, critical and methodological themes intertwine effortlessly.Contrasting a 'cosmopolitan vision' or 'outlook' sharpened by awareness of the transformative and transgressi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Contents; Detailed Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction What is 'Cosmopolitan' about the Cosmopolitan Vision; Part I Cosmopolitan Realism; 1 Global Sense, Sense of Boundarylessness: The Distinction between Philosophical and Social Scientific Cosmopolitanism; 2 The Truth of Others: On the Cosmopolitan Treatment of Difference - Distinctions, Misunderstandings, Paradoxes; 3 Cosmopolitan Society and its Adversaries; Part II Concretizations, Prospects; 4 The Politics of Politics: On the Dialectic of Cosmopolitanization and Anti-Cosmopolitanization
Description / Table of Contents:
5 War is Peace: On Postnational War6 Cosmopolitan Europe: Reality and Utopia; Notes; References and Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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