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An analysis of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism reveals that the word "culture" is explicitly mentioned at least 43 times depending on the edition and translation. Culture is relevant as the foundation of the argumentative structure since it allows for the differentiation of human groups and their peculiar characteristics. From a cosmopolitan point of view, Weber's question is still pertinent given the advances of global thinking, its recent dissemination, and its acceptance within academic circles. With cosmopolitanism as its main guide, this paper analyses the use of the word "culture: in the book in order to inspire a debate on how to define a cosmopolitan ethos. While there is a persistent inquiry onto the applicable ethical-political mechanisms, the cosmopolitan literature converges towards education as an answer to the problem of culture in a globalized world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focusses on the specificity of study the body. To perform this task we carried out four reflections to think how to investigate the object body: that it is an epistemic limit begin conceiving as essential or a material object that, therefore, strictly speaking we do not study bodies but practices which take the body as an study object, that implies necessarily interpreting and questioning the body as plural - in other words, not presuppose it as a holistic uniqueness or as a dualistic unity, or a union result of an integration of parts - and that investigate the body undertakes to think about the historical socio-cultural context in which that practice investigated develops, as well as those who carry it out -what we have called the framework body-subject-political-. Towards the end of this text, as appendix, we outline a set of guidelines about the specificity of analyzing the education of the body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]