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The Cosmopolitan Vision
By Ulrich Beck
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Description
Contrasting a 'cosmopolitan vision' or 'outlook' sharpened by awareness of the transformative and transgressive impacts of globalization with the 'national outlook' neurotically fixated on the familiar reference points of a world of nations-states-borders, sovereignty, exclusive identities-Beck shows how even opponents of globalization and cosmopolitanism are trapped by the logic of reflexive modernization into promoting the very processes they are opposing.
A persistent theme running through the book is the attempt to recover an authentically European tradition of cosmopolitan openness to otherness and tolerance of difference. What Europe needs, Beck argues, is the courage to unite forms of life which have grown out of language, skin colour, nationality or religion with awareness that, in a radically insecure world, all are equal and everyone is different.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
216
Release Date:
2006-03-10
Publication Date:
2006-04-28
Publisher:
Polity Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0745633994
ISBN13:
9780745633992
Weight:
313 g
Height:
155 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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