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 world Asia in Europe: encounters in history between Europe and Asia otherness in Europe and Asia. Exploring new expressions of European self-understanding in a way that challenges recent ideological notions of the ‘clash of civilizations’, this outstanding work draws on recent scholarship that shows how Europe and Asia were mutually linked in history and in contemporary perspective. It argues that as a result of current developments and the changing geopolitical context, both Europe and Asia have much in common and that it is possible to speak of cosmopolitan links rather than clashes. This book will be of great value to students and researchers in the fields of sociology, European politics and history and cultural theory.
Author(s): Gerard Delanty
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 320
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 15
Introduction: The idea of a post-Western Europe......Page 16
Part I: A post-Western world......Page 24
1 Europe from a cosmopolitan perspective......Page 26
2 Post-Western Europe and the plural Asias......Page 39
3 Civilizational constellations and European modernity reconsidered......Page 60
4 Oriental globalization: Past and present......Page 76
Part II: Asia in Europe: Encounters in history......Page 90
5 Contested divergence: Rethinking the “rise of the West”......Page 92
6 Discovering the world: Cosmopolitanism and globality in the ‘Eurasian’ renaissance......Page 107
7 Revealing the cosmopolitan side of Oriental Europe: The eastern origins of European civilisation......Page 122
8 Europe and the Mediterranean: A reassessment......Page 135
9 Europe and Islam......Page 153
10 Citizenship East and West: Reflections on revolutions and civil society......Page 163
11 Middle Eastern modernities, Islam and cosmopolitanism......Page 176
Part III: Between Europe and Asia......Page 194
12 Borders and rebordering......Page 196
13 Europe after the EU enlargement: ‘Cosmopolitanism by small steps’......Page 208
14 Turkey between Europe and Asia......Page 218
15 Russia as Eurasia: An innate cosmopolitanism......Page 230
16 Out of Europe but not in Europe: Israel between ethnic nation-state and Jewish cosmopolitanism......Page 243
Part IV: Otherness in Europe and Asia......Page 256
17 Europe’s otherness: Cosmopolitanism and the construction of cultural unities......Page 258
18 Is there such a thing as Eurocentrism?......Page 272
19 Rethinking Asia: Multiplying modernity......Page 284
20 Critical intellectuals in a global age: Asian and European encounters......Page 299
21 Chinese thought and dialogical universalism......Page 320
Index......Page 331
