A Democracy without a Society ?
This text aims to study and criticize, from the work of Ulrich Beck, how the cosmopolitan discourse, nature truly « ideological » (set of ideas and values legitimizing a theoretical and practical rationality), undertook to translate sociologically « liberal utopia » befitting a world unified by a mode of governance based on law and economics, and to the detriment of explicit political mediations.It will help to understand the cosmopolitan sociology from three distinct and complementary dimensions : an ontological argument based on the priority given to the substantial naturalness of the liberal individual, an epistemological argument that aims to replace the « methodological nationalism » a « science of the reality of transnational « and a political argument, which means reconceptualizing notions of sovereignty and power to dismiss the nation-state out of its pre-eminent mode of aggregation.