Volume 61 September 2010

Contents

Introduction

• Varieties of second modernity: the cosmopolitan turn in social and political theory and political theory (Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande)

Case studies

• The second modern condition? compressed modernity as internalized reflexive cosmopolitanization ( Chang Kyung-Sup)
• Redefining second modernity for East Asia: a  critical assessment (Sang-Jin Han and Young-Hee Shim)
• The Chinese path to individualization (Yunxiang Yan)
• Individualizing Japan: searching fo rits origin in first modernity (Munenori Suzuki, Midori Ito, Mitsunori Ishida, Norihiro Nihei and Masao Maruyama)
• The stranded individualizer under compressed modernity: South Korean women individualization without individualism (Chang Kyung-Sup and song Min-Young)
• 'Small change of the universal': beyond modernity (Sarat Maharaj)
• Recursive cosmopolitanization: Argentina and the global Human Rights regime (Daniel Levy)

Comments

• Beck, Asia and second modernity (Craig Calhoun)
• Planetarity and cosmopolitics (Paul Gilroy)
• Rewriting the Persian letters (Natan Sznaider)