ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the twenty-first century we have to redefine and reinvent the social sciences and humanities for the global world. This is a double challenge: first to discover and criticize how sociology, political science, history and other fields are still prisoners of the nation-state and give birth to a historically mistaken national imagination. Second, how to redefine trans-nationally the basic theoretical concepts and units of empirical research like politics, society, identity, state, history, class, law, democracy, community, solidarity, justice, mobility, military, household, and other institutions in a cosmopolitan perspective. This calls for a paradigm shift. It is also a Cosmopolitan Manifesto for the social sciences not only to renew their scientific standing and public claims but bring the social sciences back on the public agenda.
