Description

This book is clearly titled Cosmopolitan Sociology. It
might sound descriptive nevertheless cosmopolitanism is
not a mere « subject » and topic of sociological research. It
was a great and misleading scientific error to consider cosmopolitanism as a sociological subject.

The authors provide a stimulating reading and an important step towards a cosmopolitan sociology as a paradigm,
methodology and working style although it still implies to
fight against « zombie concepts » (as Beck defined them) as
« culture » and « identity » replaced by memetics and evolutionary contingency, for example. The challenge is huge
and the two coauthors are solid and strong enough to drive
the road ahead (from the « Preface » by Andrea Pitasi).