Sebastian M. Büttner is Lecturer in Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests include sociology of knowledge and culture, theory of modernity, transnationalization and regionalization in contemporary Europe, theories and practice of social government and social mobilization.

• 1. Introduction 2. A Critical Introduction to World-Polity Research 3. Outline of a Phenomenology of Late Modernity 4. A Phenomenology of the Rise of a ‘New Regionalism’ 5. The European Script of Regional Mobilization 6. Region-Building and Regional Mobilization in Poland 7. The World-Cultural Make-Up of Polish regions 8. Strategizing all the Way Down: Traces of ‘Standardized Diversification’ 9. Conclusions: The Spirit and the Limits of World-Cultural Mobilization. Appendix

Sebastian M. Büttner is Lecturer in Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests include sociology of knowledge and culture, theory of modernity, transnationalization and regionalization in contemporary Europe, theories and practice of social government and social mobilization.

• 1. Introduction 2. A Critical Introduction to World-Polity Research 3. Outline of a Phenomenology of Late Modernity 4. A Phenomenology of the Rise of a ‘New Regionalism’ 5. The European Script of Regional Mobilization 6. Region-Building and Regional Mobilization in Poland 7. The World-Cultural Make-Up of Polish regions 8. Strategizing all the Way Down: Traces of ‘Standardized Diversification’ 9. Conclusions: The Spirit and the Limits of World-Cultural Mobilization. Appendix

Sebastian M. Büttner is Lecturer in Social Theory and Cultural Sociology at the Institute of Sociology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests include sociology of knowledge and culture, theory of modernity, transnationalization and regionalization in contemporary Europe, theories and practice of social government and social mobilization.

• 1. Introduction 2. A Critical Introduction to World-Polity Research 3. Outline of a Phenomenology of Late Modernity 4. A Phenomenology of the Rise of a ‘New Regionalism’ 5. The European Script of Regional Mobilization 6. Region-Building and Regional Mobilization in Poland 7. The World-Cultural Make-Up of Polish regions 8. Strategizing all the Way Down: Traces of ‘Standardized Diversification’ 9. Conclusions: The Spirit and the Limits of World-Cultural Mobilization. Appendix