Download or read book Cosmopolitan Europe written by Ulrich Beck and published by Polity. This book was released on 2007-11-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work completes Beck's trilogy on 'cosmopolitan realism'. 'The Cosmopolitan Vision' develops the theoretical perspective which in 'Power in the Global Age' is applied to issues concerning the postnational legitimation of political power and, here, is tested against a special case, the unknown Europe in which we live.