
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2012
Pages: 64-85
Series: Europe in a Global Context
ISBN (Hardback): 9780230302631
Full citation:
, "Divided time", in: European cosmopolitanism in question, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012


Divided time
notes on cosmopolitanism and the theory of second modernity
pp. 64-85
in: Roland Robertson, Anne S. Krossa (eds), European cosmopolitanism in question, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Abstract
This chapter deals with a social-scientific variety of cosmopolitanism — deriving not from political theory or philosophy, but from sociological theory. Although recent years have witnessed a surge in works dedicated to the study of cosmopolitanism, the presence of a sociological idiom in this context is far from self-evident. For the discipline of sociology has traditionally tended to claim for itself an empirical-analytical gesture, often directed towards an analysis of the contemporary, that distinguished it from both political theory and philosophy. So, while allusions to cosmopolitanism have not been completely absent from sociological discourse (see Berger, 1963: 52–3), they used to be framed as normative rather than analytical or even empirical references. Against this background, the new analytic turn towards cosmopolitanism in sociological theory regards itself as forging new paths both for sociological theory and for the conceptualization of cosmopolitanism — to address the concept not as a utopia but as a reality.
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2012
Pages: 64-85
Series: Europe in a Global Context
ISBN (Hardback): 9780230302631
Full citation:
, "Divided time", in: European cosmopolitanism in question, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012