Description
Just as the Peace of Westphalia brought the religious civil wars of the seventeenth century to an end through the separation of church and state, so too the separation of state and nation represents the appropriate response to the horrors of the twentieth century. And just as the secular state makes the exercise of different religions possible, so too cosmopolitan Europe must guarantee the coexistence of different ethnic, religious and political forms of life across national borders based on the principle of cosmopolitan tolerance.
The task the authors have set themselves in this book is nothing less than to rethink Europe as an idea and a reality. It represents an attempt to understand the process of Europeanization in light of the theory of reflexive modernization and thereby to redefine it at both the theoretical and the political level.
This book completes Ulrich Beck's trilogy on 'cosmopolitan realism', the volumes of which complement each other and can be read independently. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the key social and political developments of our time.
About the Author
U. Beck, Professor of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximillian University of Munich
Reviews
"An important stimulus to how Europeans can seek to understand critically what will happen to them in 2008 and beyond."
Ranier Fsadni, Times of Malta
"This is an important, highly relevant, and compelling book. It will be valuable to anyone who is interested in the present state and future of Europe."
James Rosenau, George Washington University
Book Information
ISBN 9780745635637
Author Ulrich Beck
Format Paperback
Page Count 328
Imprint Polity Press
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 481g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 18mm
