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The discussion on ‘European cosmopolitanism’, which has been intensifying for some time now, seems to reproduce a fundamental conceptual problem. Whenever authors start out from a specific answer, in the sense of a solution — in this case, European cosmopolitanism — it leaves them with only one main task. As this task is simply to justify their basic assumption, it is not too surprising when this justification becomes purely normative; or, more problematically, when normative and analytical elements are mixed. All too often this approach considerably limits discussion.
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Krossa, A.S. (2012). Why ‘European Cosmopolitanism’?. In: Robertson, R., Krossa, A.S. (eds) European Cosmopolitanism in Question. Europe in a Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230360280_2
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