Anastasia Marinopoulou is Associate Lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has taught at Munich University (Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science), the University of Peloponnese and the Open University in Greece. Her research interests focus on epistemology, political theory and philosophy of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is the author of The Concept of the Political in Max Horkheimer and Jürgen Habermas (2008).

• Contents: Anastasia Marinopoulou: The Origins of the Second Modernity - Any Political Prospects? – Hauke Brunkhorst: Some Conceptual and Structural Problems of Global Cosmopolitanism – Piet Strydom: Cosmopolitization and the Prospects of a Cosmopolitan Modernity – Max Preglau: Cosmopolitanism and its Enemies: The Return of Nationalism - The Case of Austria – Manos Spyridakis: Cosmopolitan Possibilities and Ethnographic Realities in the Workplace: The Case of Struggling Employees in the Mass Media Sector – Robert Fine: Cosmopolitanism and Antisemitism: Two Faces of Universality – Tracey Skillington: Violence, Memory, Time: Towards a Cosmopolitan Model of Learning from Atrocity – Kevin McSorley: Cosmopolitanism and the Body – Anastasia Marinopoulou: Defining Cosmopolitanism: European Politics of the Twenty-First Century – Jens Greve: Differentiation, Class Formation and Elite-Network Structures in World Society.