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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delanty, Gerard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Taylor & Francis, 2006.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed May 06, 2023).

Includes bibliographical references and index.