Europe and Asia beyond East and West /

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

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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 q...

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Delanty, Gerard,
Place / Publishing House:[Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2006.
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (337 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction.
  • Part 1: 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 2 : 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 Civilization
  • 8. Europe and the Mediterranean: A Reassessment
  • 9. Islam in Europe
  • 10. Citizenship East and West: Reflections on Revolutions and Civil Society
  • 11. Middle Eastern Modernities, Islam and Cosmopolitanism
  • Part 3: Between Europe and Asia
  • 12. Borders and Re-Bordering
  • 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 Cosmopolitanism
  • Part 4: 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 Asia
  • 20. Critical Intellectuals in a Global Age: Asian and European Encounters
  • 21. Chinese Thought and Dialogical Universalism.

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