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Cosmopolitan Europe Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Beck, Ulrich

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  • Title Cosmopolitan Europe
  • Author Beck, Ulrich
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2007-11-12
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0745635636.G
  • ISBN 9780745635637 / 0745635636
  • Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.68 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.73 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Europe - Foreign relations, Nationalism - Europe
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number JZ1308
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.94

From the publisher

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-299) and index. Translated from the German.

From the rear cover

Europe is Europe's last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in terms of the traditional concepts of politics and the state, which remain trapped in the straightjacket of methodological nationalism. Thus, if we are to understand cosmopolitan Europe, we must radically rethink the conventional categories of social and political analysis.


Just as the Peace of Westphalia brought the religious civil wars of the seventeenth century to an end through the separation of church and state, so too the separation of state and nation represents the appropriate response to the horrors of the twentieth century. And just as the secular state makes the exercise of different religions possible, so too cosmopolitan Europe must guarantee the coexistence of different ethnic, religious and political forms of life across national borders based on the principle of cosmopolitan tolerance.


The task the authors have set themselves in this book is nothing less than to rethink Europe as an idea and a reality. It represents an attempt to understand the process of Europeanization in light of the theory of reflexive modernization and thereby to redefine it at both the theoretical and the political level.


This book completes Ulrich Beck's trilogy on 'cosmopolitan realism', the volumes of which complement each other and can be read independently. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the key social and political developments of our time.

About the author

U. Beck, Professor of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich