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Cosmopolitan Europe


Cosmopolitan Europe


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von: Ulrich Beck, Edgar Grande

23,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 05.11.2014
ISBN/EAN: 9780745694597
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 328

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Europe is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in terms of the traditional concepts of politics and the state, which remain trapped in the straightjacket of methodological nationalism. Thus, if we are to understand cosmopolitan Europe, we must radically rethink the conventional categories of social and political analysis.<br /> <p><br /> </p> <p>Just as the Peace of Westphalia brought the religious civil wars of the seventeenth century to an end through the separation of church and state, so too the separation of state and nation represents the appropriate response to the horrors of the twentieth century. And just as the secular state makes the exercise of different religions possible, so too cosmopolitan Europe must guarantee the coexistence of different ethnic, religious and political forms of life across national borders based on the principle of cosmopolitan tolerance.<br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p>The task the authors have set themselves in this book is nothing less than to rethink Europe as an idea and a reality. It represents an attempt to understand the process of Europeanization in light of the theory of reflexive modernization and thereby to redefine it at both the theoretical and the political level.<br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p>This book completes Ulrich Beck’s trilogy on ‘cosmopolitan realism’, the volumes of which complement each other and can be read independently. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the key social and political developments of our time.</p>
<p>Foreword.</p> <p>Chapter 1: Introduction: The European Malady and Why the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Europe Could Evolve.</p> <p>Chapter 2: The Reflexive Modernization of Europe.</p> <p>Chapter 3: The Cosmopolitan Empire: The State and Power in the Case of Europeanization.</p> <p>Chapter 4: Europe's Social Arena: On the Variable Dynamic of her Borders.</p> <p>Chapter 5: Strategies for the Cosmopolitanization of Europe.</p> <p>Chapter 6: Diversity and Acceptance: Pan-European Social Conflict and the Political Dynamic.</p> <p>Chapter 7: On the Dialectics of Globalization and Europeanization:Without Oppositions to a Cosmopolitan Europe.</p> <p>Chapter 8: A Cosmopolitan Vision for Europe.</p> <p>Bibliography.</p>
"An important stimulus to how Europeans can seek to understand critically what will happen to them in 2008 and beyond."<br /> <p><b>Ranier Fsadni, <i>Times of Malta</i></b><br /> </p> <p>"This is an important, highly relevant, and compelling book. It will be valuable to anyone who is interested in the present state and future of Europe."<br /> </p> <p><b>James Rosenau, <i>George Washington University</i></b></p>
<b>U. Beck</b>, Professor of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich
Europe is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in terms of the traditional concepts of politics and the state, which remain trapped in the straightjacket of methodological nationalism. Thus, if we are to understand cosmopolitan Europe, we must radically rethink the conventional categories of social and political analysis.<br /> <p><br /> </p> <p>Just as the Peace of Westphalia brought the religious civil wars of the seventeenth century to an end through the separation of church and state, so too the separation of state and nation represents the appropriate response to the horrors of the twentieth century. And just as the secular state makes the exercise of different religions possible, so too cosmopolitan Europe must guarantee the coexistence of different ethnic, religious and political forms of life across national borders based on the principle of cosmopolitan tolerance.<br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p>The task the authors have set themselves in this book is nothing less than to rethink Europe as an idea and a reality. It represents an attempt to understand the process of Europeanization in light of the theory of reflexive modernization and thereby to redefine it at both the theoretical and the political level.<br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p>This book completes Ulrich Beck’s trilogy on ‘cosmopolitan realism’, the volumes of which complement each other and can be read independently. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the key social and political developments of our time.</p>

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