The Cosmopolitan Vision Paperback - 2007
by Beck, U
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- Title The Cosmopolitan Vision
- Author Beck, U
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity, Cambridge, UK
- Date 2007
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 8982148
- ISBN 9780745633992 / 0745633994
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.1 x 0.64 in (22.81 x 15.49 x 1.63 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Cosmopolitanism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006279841
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.482
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From the rear cover
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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- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 197
