
Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2012
Pages: 44-63
Series: Europe in a Global Context
ISBN (Hardback): 9780230302631
Full citation:
, "Cosmopolitanism in social theory", in: European cosmopolitanism in question, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012


Cosmopolitanism in social theory
an ambivalent defence
pp. 44-63
in: Roland Robertson, Anne S. Krossa (eds), European cosmopolitanism in question, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Abstract
Cosmopolitanism is now widely present within contemporary social sciences, having successfully jumped all of the hurdles that new analytical frameworks have to overcome in order to be recognized within the scholarly community. Its historical credentials have been reconstructed and brought up to date (Chernilo, 2007b; Fine, 2003a; Inglis, 2009; Inglis and Robertson, 2008; Turner, 1990, 2006), its critical force for redressing some of the problems of previous approaches has been amply discussed (Beck and Sznaider, 2006; Habermas, 1998), its potential analytical uses are being intimated in a number of different disciplinary and empirical contexts (Chea, 2006; Delanty, 2009; Derrida, 2001; Fine, 2003b, 2006, 2007; Harvey, 2009; Skrbis, Kendall, and Woodward, 2004), its normative strengths and weaknesses, as well as its co-lateral implications, are being systematically reviewed and reflected upon (Benhabib, 2004; Bohman, 2007; Habermas, 2006). Cosmopolitan social science — or, more pertinently for this chapter, cosmopolitan social theory — is now a rightful occupant of our increasingly cosmopolitan intellectual landscapes.
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Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2012
Pages: 44-63
Series: Europe in a Global Context
ISBN (Hardback): 9780230302631
Full citation:
, "Cosmopolitanism in social theory", in: European cosmopolitanism in question, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012