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

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2017; ©2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 pages)
• Disciplina: 940
• Soggetto topico: East and West; National characteristics, European
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Relations Asia Congresses; Asia Relations Europe Congresses
• Persona (resp. second.): DelantyGerard
• Note generali: Selected conference papers.; Revised conference papers.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 civilisation; 8 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 cosmopolitanism; Part 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Europe and Asia beyond East and West
• ISBN: 1-134-18140-X; 1-280-62217-2; 9786610622177; 0-203-96310-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910765813603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge/European Sociological Association studies in European societies ; ; 8.