Europe and Asia beyond East and West / edited by Gerard Delanty.

• Superior document: Routledge/European Sociological Association studies in European societies ; 8
• Author: European Sociological Association.; Delanty, Gerard
• TeilnehmendeR: Delanty, Gerard.; European Sociological Association.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge/European Sociological Association studies in European societies ; 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Notes: Selected conference papers.; Revised conference papers.

This major new book tackles key questions on Europe in the context of shifting parameters of East and West. The contributors - sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and historians - show, from a variety of different perspectives, that the conventional equation of Europe with the West must be questioned. Featuring four thematically organized chapters, the book looks at: a post-Western worldAsia in Europe: encounters in historybetween Europe and Asiaotherness in Europe and Asia.Exploring new expressions of European self-understanding i

Table of Contents

Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: The idea of a post-Western Europe; Part I: A post-Western world; 1 Europe from a cosmopolitan perspective; 2 Post-Western Europe and the plural Asias; 3 Civilizational constellations and European modernity reconsidered; 4 Oriental globalization: Past and present; Part II: Asia in Europe: Encounters in history; 5 Contested divergence: Rethinking the "rise of the West"; 6 Discovering the world: Cosmopolitanism and globality in the 'Eurasian' renaissance

7 Revealing the cosmopolitan side of Oriental Europe: The eastern origins of European civilisation8 Europe and the Mediterranean: A reassessment; 9 Europe and Islam; 10 Citizenship East and West: Reflections on revolutions and civil society; 11 Middle Eastern modernities, Islam and cosmopolitanism; Part III: Between Europe and Asia; 12 Borders and rebordering; 13 Europe after the EU enlargement: 'Cosmopolitanism by small steps'; 14 Turkey between Europe and Asia; 15 Russia as Eurasia: An innate cosmopolitanism

16 Out of Europe but not in Europe: Israel between ethnic nation-state and Jewish cosmopolitanismPart IV: Otherness in Europe and Asia; 17 Europe's otherness: Cosmopolitanism and the construction of cultural unities; 18 Is there such a thing as Eurocentrism?; 19 Rethinking Asia: Multiplying modernity; 20 Critical intellectuals in a global age: Asian and European encounters; 21 Chinese thought and dialogical universalism; Index