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
Biography
Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool. His recent books include (with Chris Rumford) Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization (Routeldge, 2005); Community (Routledge, 2004). He has edited Handbook of Contemporary European Social Theory (Routledge, 2005) and (with Krishan Kumar) The Handbook of Nations and Nationalism (Sage, 2006).
"Europe and Asia Beyond East and West translates the contemporary pulse of Europe and Asia through the mind of Europe and its assessment of Asia as well as the West with regard to its own interests. Of course, nobody can deny the importance of Asia today. Yet, Europe prides itself as the pioneer of modernity. From this vantage point, Europe believes that they do have the legacy of disseminating progress through secularism and democracy. More the rest follow Europe as a model more the globe shall grow as a harmonious whole." Dr. Zulfiqar Ali, Reviewer's Bookwatch: Midewest Book Review
