Gerard Delanty is a Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. He worked as fellow and visiting professor at York University, Toronto; Doshisha University, Kyota; Deakin University, Melbourne; Hamburg University; the Federal University of Brasilia; and the University of Barcelona. His most recent publication is Critical Theory and Social Transformation (London: Routledge, 2020). Other publications include: The Cosmopolitan Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2009), Formations of European Modernity, 2nd edition (Palgrave, 2019), Community 3rd Edition (Routledge 2018), The European Heritage: A Critical Re-Interpretation (Routledge 2018). He has edited many volumes, including the Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitan Studies, 2nd edition 2019) and, with Stephen P. Turner, the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory (2011), He is also the Chief Editor of the European Journal of Social Theory.