The Cosmopolitan Vision

Develops concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology, into a sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Thi... » 

Develops concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology, into a sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. This book attempts to recover an authentically European tradition of a cosmopolitan openness to otherness, and a tolerance of difference. «