
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2012
Pages: 6-24
Series: Europe in a Global Context
ISBN (Hardback): 9780230302631
Full citation:
, "Why "European cosmopolitanism"?", in: European cosmopolitanism in question, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012


Why "European cosmopolitanism"?
pp. 6-24
in: Roland Robertson, Anne S. Krossa (eds), European cosmopolitanism in question, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Abstract
The discussion on "European cosmopolitanism", which has been intensifying for some time now, seems to reproduce a fundamental conceptual problem. Whenever authors start out from a specific answer, in the sense of a solution — in this case, European cosmopolitanism — it leaves them with only one main task. As this task is simply to justify their basic assumption, it is not too surprising when this justification becomes purely normative; or, more problematically, when normative and analytical elements are mixed. All too often this approach considerably limits discussion.
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2012
Pages: 6-24
Series: Europe in a Global Context
ISBN (Hardback): 9780230302631
Full citation:
, "Why "European cosmopolitanism"?", in: European cosmopolitanism in question, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012