The Cosmopolitan Imagination

The Renewal of Critical Social Theory

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ID19600581
AuthorsGerard Delanty (0000-0001-7260-5904, University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year2009
Publication date2009-10-08
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byThe Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Renewal of Critical Social Theory, Anthony Moran, 2010
VenueCosmopolitan Imagination (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511642227
OpenAlexW4235715350
Open LibraryOL10436644M
ISBN9780511642227
LanguageEN
Citations received256
References cited214

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

Argument (complex analysis) · Context (archaeology) · Cosmopolitanism · Critical theory · Epistemology · Geography · Globalization · Normative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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