Futures of Modernity
Challenges for Cosmopolitical Thought and Practice
Global risks, mobilities and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of »reflexive« (Ulrich Beck), »multiple« (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), »entangled« (Shalini Randeria) and »global« (Arjun Appadurai) modernities simultaneously and immediately clash in social action: a process of cosmopolitanization in which »the global« is localized and »the local« is globalized in radical new ways. In this book, an international selection of prominent critical thinkers address this premise and provide their interpretations of imminent challenges, concomitant social dynamics and political implications.
With contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, Edgar Grande, Maarten Hajer, Ronald Hitzler, Wolf Lepenies, Anna Tsing, Angela McRobbie, Bruno Latour, Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Natan Sznaider, Anja Weiß and Yunxiang Yan.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Table of Content
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Futures of Modernity: An Introduction
Seiten 7 - 22 -
Cosmopolitanizing European Modernity
Thinking beyond Trajectorism
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Cosmopolitan Hope
Seiten 33 - 36 -
Ironic Politics - Politics of the Future?
Seiten 37 - 42 -
The Triple Challenge
Seiten 43 - 48 -
World Risk Society - Climate Change in a Cosmopolitical View
Ordinary Catastrophe: Outsourcing Risk in Supply-Chain Capitalism
Seiten 51 - 64 -
Reflexive Modernity Brings us back to Earth
Seiten 65 - 76 -
Living the Winter of Discontent: Reflections of a Deliberative Practitioner
Seiten 77 - 94 -
The Political Contradictions of Second Modernity
Seiten 95 - 106 -
Inequality and Governance in the Global Age
Global Inequality and Human Rights: A Cosmopolitan Perspective
Seiten 109 - 128 -
The Politicization of Europe
Seiten 129 - 140 -
The Future of Global Inequality
Seiten 141 - 154 -
A Good Job Well Done: Richard Sennett and the Politics of Creative Labour
Seiten 155 - 174 -
Individualization Cosmopolitanized
Of the Individual and Individualization: The Striving Individual in China and the Theoretical Implications
Seiten 177 - 194 -
Individualisation, Migration and Gender Relations
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Inequality: From Natural »Facts« to Injustice
Seiten 201 - 214 -
Cosmopolitan Individualization. Twelve Theses on Ulrich Beck
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Notes on Editors and Contributors
Seiten 231 - 240
20 September 2012, 240 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-2076-8
File size: 1.3 MB
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