Böcker av Craig Calhoun

Craig Calhoun, Dilip Gaonkar, and Charles Taylor argue that democracies have embraced individual freedom at the expense of equality and solidarity, economic growth at the expense of democracy. Rebuilding local communities and large-scale institutions is now crucial, with attention to the public good beyond private advantage or ingroup loyalty.

"We want neither gods nor emperors", went the words from the Chinese version of The Internationale. Students sang the old socialist song as they gathered in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in the Spring of 1989. This book offers a carefully crafted analysis of the student movement, its leadership, its eventual suppression, and its continuing legacy.

The new form of "humanitarian government" emerging from natural disasters and military occupations that reduces people to mere lives to be rescued.

Questions the social bases of cosmopolitanism and the continuing importance of nationalism. This book addresses the ways in which cosmopolitan theories may be biased from the standpoint of European and American elites. It is useful for students, and social scientists researching in the disciplines of sociology, politics and cultural studies.