The Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Renewal of Critical Social Theory - Brossura

Delanty, Gerard

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ISBN 10: 0521695457 ISBN 13: 9780521695459

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

Gerard Delanty provides a comprehensive assessment of the idea of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. He argues that cosmopolitanism has a critical dimension which offers a solution to one of the weaknesses in the critical theory tradition: failure to respond to the challenges of globalization and intercultural communication. Critical cosmopolitanism, he proposes, is an approach that is not only relevant to social scientific analysis but also normatively grounded in a critical attitude. Delanty's argument for a critical, sociologically oriented cosmopolitanism aims to avoid, on the one hand, purely normative conceptions of cosmopolitanism and, on the other, approaches that reduce cosmopolitanism to the empirical expression of diversity. He attempts to take cosmopolitan theory beyond the largely Western context with which it has generally been associated, claiming that cosmopolitan analysis must now take into account non-Western expressions of cosmopolitanism.

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Recensione:

'The revival of critical theory needs a cosmopolitan vision and Gerard Delanty has achieved this with an important and inspiring book.' Ulrich Beck, Professor of Sociology, University of Munich and London School of Economics and Political Science

Descrizione del libro:

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.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521695457
• ISBN 13: 9780521695459
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 308