Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth

Vincenzo Cicchelli is an Associate Professor at the Université Paris Descartes, France and a Research Fellow at GEMASS (CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne), France.Sylvie Octobre is a Researcher at the Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques (DEPS) of the French Ministry of Culture, and an Associate Research Fellow at GEMASS (CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne), France.

• 1. How Young People Develop a Taste for the World.- Part 1: Configuration of a Taste for the World .- 2. The Morphology of Cultural Consumption Repertoires .- 3. From Global Cultural References to Global Imaginaries .- 4. Five Configurations of Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism.- Conclusion to Part I: A Continuum of Configurations.- Part 2: What Determines a Taste for the World?.- 5. Omnivorism and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism.- 6. Language Skills and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism.- 7. Mobility and Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism.- Part 3: Cosmopolitan Amateurs.- 8. Understanding the World .- 9. Feeling the World.- 10. Tensions and Divisions.- Conclusion to Part III: Rejecting the Cultural Discount Hypothesis 11. General Conclusion: A Modern Sensibility for Today's World.