La terra degli altri is a conceptual roadmap for finding one's way through sociological studies addressing social, cultural and political change. The approach is both organic and detailed, from an international and European viewpoint, developing though a pondered and multi-disciplinary reconstruction of the key notion of cosmopolitanism. Entering into the polyseme of a category that has its origins in Greek philosophy and is manifest in the ambivalent historic dialectic between universalism and cultural relativism, Anna Taglioli presents cosmopolitanism as a paradigm for reading the process of construction of our civilisation and as an analytical lens capable of focusing a reality that emerges as structurally cosmopolitan. The reflection and mirror of the transformations of European society, the 'ism' becomes a project for addressing contemporary democratic challenges, the proposal of a meditation that can be applied to the entities and institutions in order to overcome the logic of the single, mapping out a society built upon dialogue. Shifting the cosmopolitan ideal to an inclusive trajectory underscores the importance of the cosmopolitan as a prospect of internalisation of the transforming elements of modernity and an expression of new reflective relationships that can contribute to building the possibility of a new 'social, cultural and political world'.
University of Florence, Italy
Book Title
La terra degli altri
Book Subtitle
Traiettorie sociologiche del cosmopolitismo
Authors
Anna Taglioli
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
176
Publication Year
2010
Copyright Information
© 2010 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-8453-992-2
ISBN Print
978-88-8453-994-6
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-8453-992-2
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-741-9
Series Title
Strumenti per la didattica e la ricerca
Series ISSN
2704-6249
Series E-ISSN
2704-5870