The cosmopolitan social link in the EU context. A Tocquevillian approach
(2015) ESA 2015 — Location: Prague (25.August.2015)
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- In this presentation, I would like to show how Tocqueville can contribute to today’s question of cosmopolitanism studies, namely to understand the integration of otherness and plurality within the self-determination. My claim is that the democratic individual, as Tocqueville understands it, refers to the dialectic between equality and freedom principles in order to integrate dynamically and continuously the otherness in its self-definition. The main activity to maintain and substantiate democratic society for Tocqueville is then the production of social bonds, which is not in itself limited to a “national border”. This production of social links can be related to the encounter (Delanty, 2011) of individuals or cultures that happens between the Self and the Other (Delanty, 2012). Therefore, this communication explores firstly the tocquevillian role within Beck’s transition between the first and the second modernity. Then it completes Beck’s reading with the critical cosmopolitanism made of openness and exchange such as proposed by Gerard Delanty.
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Arens, N. (2015). The cosmopolitan social link in the EU context. A Tocquevillian approach. ESA 2015, Prague. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/187509