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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 January 2010
      08 October 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511642227
      9780521873734
      9780521695459
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511642227
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 308 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 308 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social Theory, Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
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    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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    ‘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

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