European Cosmopolitanism in Question

Including a stellar line-up of international scholars, this book is an ambitious analysis of cosmopolitanism that will push the debate into new arenas, open up new lines of inquiry and have an impact on the study of globalization and global processes for years to come.

ROLAND ROBERTSON Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. His previous books include: Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture, International Systems and the Modernization of Societies, The Sociological Interpretation of Religion and Sociology and Football.
ANNE SOPHIE KROSSALecturer in European Studiesin the Department of European Languages and Cultures atLancaster University, UK. She is the founder of the interdisciplinary 'Research Group on Europe and Globalization' at Lancaster University.

List of Tables
Introduction; A.Krossa & R.Robertson
Why European Cosmopolitanism?; A.Krossa
Some Comments on Cosmopolitanism and Europe; R.Holton
Cosmopolitanism in Social Theory: An Ambivalent Defense; D.Chernilo
Divided Time: Notes on Cosmopolitanism and the Theory of Second Modernity; A.Langenohl
Cosmopolitanism as a Concept for Tolerant Demarcation; J.Schraten
Cosmopolitan Liberalism and its Limits; C.Calhoun
Cosmopolitan Trends across World Regions: Discerning a European Exceptionalism; V.Roudometof & W.Haller
The Obama Effect: Confronting the Political and and the Cosmopolitics of the Real; P.Werbner
European Cosmopolitanism and the Global Field; R.Robertson
Bibliography
Index