The cosmopolitan imagination. The renewal of critical social theory
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
- Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521695459
- ISBN10 0521695457
- Tipus LLIBRE
- Pàgines 296
- Any Edició 2010
- Idioma Anglès
- Encuadernació Rústica
Matèries
Sociologia. Temes GeneralsThe cosmopolitan imagination. The renewal of critical social theory
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Espanya peninsular
Detalls del llibre
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.