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by Ulrich Beck (Author), Ciaran Cronin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 216 pages
  • Publisher: Polity Press (19 Feb 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0745633994
  • ISBN-13: 978-0745633992
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 397,833 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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"Beck′s contribution to the normative construction of a cosmopolitan vision in the world today inspires hope and confidence in a new era of global political and social relations."
Australian Journal of Political Science

"Once again, Ulrich Beck has brought a distinctive perspective to a major social issue. He rightly sees that cosmopolitanism cannot simply be wished into reality but can only be achieved on the basis of confronting basic issues of social inequality. We need to pay attention."
Craig Calhoun, New York University



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In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses of such phenomena as migration, war and terror, as well as a range of literary and historical works, to weave a rich discursive web in which analytical, critical and methodological themes intertwine effortlessly.


Contrasting a ′cosmopolitan vision′ or ′outlook′ sharpened by awareness of the transformative and transgressive impacts of globalization with the ′national outlook′ neurotically fixated on the familiar reference points of a world of nations–states–borders, sovereignty, exclusive identities–Beck shows how even opponents of globalization and cosmopolitanism are trapped by the logic of reflexive modernization into promoting the very processes they are opposing.


A persistent theme running through the book is the attempt to recover an authentically European tradition of cosmopolitan openness to otherness and tolerance of difference. What Europe needs, Beck argues, is the courage to unite forms of life which have grown out of language, skin colour, nationality or religion with awareness that, in a radically insecure world, all are equal and everyone is different.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Key reference, sloppy translation, 23 April 2009
By J. Moes (Utrecht, NL, EU) - See all my reviews
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This is a key reference for anyone working in the domain of cosmopolitanism. Beck puts forward some original ideas, offering interesting new research domains (although this work is not the place to look for concrete suggestions for empirical research). The translation is a little sloppy here and there, but not a real obstacle.
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