Author: Delanty, Gerard.
Title: The Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Renewal of Critical Social Theory.
Description: Cambridge Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2009. Paperback octavo, very good condition, front cover corner creased, minor edgewear. 296 pp. Gerard Delanty assesses the idea of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought, and which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. Argues that cosmopolitanism has a critical dimension which solves one of the weaknesses in the critical theory tradition: failure to respond to the challenges of globalization and intercultural communication. Critical cosmopolitanism is an approach that is not only relevant to social scientific analysis but also normatively grounded in a critical attitude. The 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. 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. ISBN: 9780521695459

Keywords: society, government, politics, critical theory, cosmopolitanism, communication 9780521695459


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