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Cosmopolitan Europe

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3563-7
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328 pages
November 2007, Polity
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  • Brilliant new work by Ulrich Beck, one of the leading social thinkers of our time written with an eminent scholar of sociology.
  • Beck develops his now classic concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization in Europe.
  • A persistent theme running through Beck’s reflections is his attempt to recover an authentically European tradition of cosmopolitan openness and otherness and tolerance of difference.
  • An essential text for students and scholars in sociology and politics.
  • This book completes Ulrich Beck’s trilogy on ‘cosmopolitan realism', whose volumes complement each other and can be read independently.
  • The Cosmopolitan Vision develops the theoretical perspective which in Power in the Global Age is applied to key issues concerning the postnational legitimation of political power and, finally, in Cosmopolitan Europe, is tested against a special case, the unknown Europe in which we live.
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