European Cosmopolitanism in Question

by Robertson, Roland; Krossa, Anne Sophie

• ISBN13: 9780230302631
• ISBN10: 0230302637
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Including a stellar line-up of international scholars, this book is an ambitious analysis of cosmopolitanism that will push the debate into new arenas, open up new lines of inquiry and have an impact on the study of globalization and global processes for years to come.

Author Biography

Roland Robertson Professor of Sociology and Global Society Emeritus, University of Aberdeen, UK and Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh, USA. His previous books include Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture, International Systems and the Modernization of Societies, The Sociological Interpretation of Religion and Globalization and Football. Anne Sophie Krossa Professor of Sociological Theory at the University of Siegen, Germany, previously Lecturer in European Studies at Lancaster University, UK. She founded the interdisciplinary 'Research Group on Europe and Globalization' at Lancaster University. Her most current book is Theorising Society in a Global Context.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
Introduction; A. Krossa and R. Robertson
Chapter 1: Why European Cosmopolitanism?; A. Krossa
Chapter 2: Some Comments on Cosmopolitanism and Europe; R. Holton
Chapter 3: Cosmopolitanism in Social Theory: An Ambivalent Defense; D. Chernilo
Chapter 4: Divided Time: Notes on Cosmopolitanism and the Theory of Second Modernity; A. Langenohl
Chapter 5: Cosmopolitanism as a Concept for Tolerant Demarcation; J. Schraten
Chapter 6: Cosmopolitan Liberalism and its Limits; C. Calhoun
Chapter 7: Cosmopolitan Trends across World Regions: Discerning a European Exceptionalism; V. Roudometof and W. Haller
Chapter 8: The Obama Effect: Confronting the Political and and the Cosmopolitics of the Real; P. Werbner
Chapter 9: European Cosmopolitanism and the Global Field; R. Robertson
Bibliography
Index