Social Bonds as Freedom

Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-693-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

Central to discussions of multiculturalism and minority rights in modern liberal societies is the idea that the particular demands of minority groups contradict the requirements of equality, anonymity, and universality for citizenship and belonging. The contributors to this volume question the significance of this dichotomy between the universal and the particular, arguing that it reflects how the modern state has instituted the basic rights and obligations of its members and that these institutions are undergoing fundamental transformations under the pressure of globalization. They show that the social bonds uniting groups constitute the means of our freedom, rather than obstacles to achieving the universal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dumouchel, Paul

Gotoh, Reiko

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables

Introduction: Of Bonds and Boundaries

Paul Dumouchel & Reiko Gotoh

Part I: Social bonds in transformation

Chapter 1. Incompleteness and the Possibility of Making: Towards denationalized citizenship?

Saskia Sassen

Chapter 2. Justice and Culture: New contradictions in the era of techno-nihilistic capitalism

Mauro Magatti

Chapter 3. Bounded Justifiability: Making commonality on the basis of binding engagements

Laurent Thévenot

Chapter 4. On the Poverty of our Freedom

Axel Honneth

Part II: Beyond imperial universalism

Chapter 5. Western Humanitarianism and the Representation of Distant Suffering: A genealogy of moral grammars and visual regimes

Fuyuki Kurasawa

Chapter 6. Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism: On the deep difficulties of creating solidarity without outside enemies

Wolfgang Palaver

Chapter 7. Partial Commitments and Universal Obligations

Paul Dumouchel

Chapter 8. A Reluctant Cosmopolitan

Anne Phillips

Part III: Towards a re-conceptualization of liberalism

Chapter 9. Liberal Autonomy and Minority Accommodation: A new approach

Geoffrey Brahm Levey

Chapter 10. Cultural Boundaries and the Reasonable Accommodation of Minorities: Is secularism enough?

Gurpreet Mahajan

Chapter 11. Arrow, Rawls and Sen: The Transformation of Political Economy and the Idea of Liberalism

Reiko Gotoh

Conclusion: Social bonds as freedom

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dumouchel, Paul
Paul Dumouchel is Professor of philosophy at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He is the author of Le sacrifice inutile essai sur la violence politique (Paris: Flammarion, 2011) and The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays (Michigan State University Press, 2014) and co-edited with Rieko Gotoh Against Injustice the New Economics of Amartya Sen (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Gotoh, Reiko
Reiko Gotoh is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. She is the author of Economical Philosophy of Justice: Rawls and Sen (Toyo Keizai Shinposha, 2002, in Japanese) and co-edited, with Paul Dumouchel, Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and, with Amartya Sen, Well-Being and Justice (University of Tokyo Press, 2008, in Japanese).

Paul Dumouchel is Professor of philosophy at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He is the author of Le sacrifice inutile essai sur la violence politique (Paris: Flammarion, 2011) and The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays (Michigan State University Press, 2014) and co-edited with Rieko Gotoh Against Injustice the New Economics of Amartya Sen (Cambridge University Press, 2009).