TY - CHAP AB - Our point of departure is a reservation concerning the validity of cosmopolitan ideas in response to 9/11. Cosmopolitanism in the social and political sciences plays an important role in the reconstruction of conceptual tools, the diagnosis of the current epoch and the creation of new normative standards. Its key motif, however, that of epochal change from a nationally-based to a cosmopolitan world order, is prematurely dismissive of traditional categories and assimilative of a normative vision. The separation of the present from the past is as overstated as is its conflation with the future. VL - 31 SN - 978-1-84950-252-8, 978-0-76231-074-6/1059-4337 DO - 10.1016/S1059-4337(03)31002-6 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1059-4337(03)31002-6 AU - Fine Robert AU - Chernilo Daniel PY - 2003 Y1 - 2003/01/01 TI - BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE: THE EQUIVOCATIONS OF THE NEW COSMOPOLITANISM T2 - Studies in Law, Politics and Society T3 - Studies in Law, Politics, and Society PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 25 EP - 44 Y2 - 2024/04/27 ER -