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Social bonds as freedom : revisiting the dichotomy of the universal and the particular / edited by Paul Dumouchel and Reiko Gotoh.

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Book
Contributor:
Dumouchel, Paul, 1951- editor.
Gotō, Reiko, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Universals (Philosophy).
Citizenship--Philosophy.
Citizenship.
Liberalism--Philosophy.
Liberalism.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (296 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn, 2015.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Incompleteness and the possibility of making : towards denationalized citizenship? / Saskia Sassen
Justice and culture : new contradictions in the era of techno-nihilistic capitalism / Mauro Magatti
Bounded justifiability : making commonality on the basis of binding engagements / Laurent Thevenot
On the poverty of our freedom / Axel Honneth
Western humanitarianism and the representation of distant suffering : a genealogy of moral grammars and visual regimes / Fuyuki Kurasawa
Parochial altruism and Christian universalism : on the deep difficulties of creating solidarity without outside enemies / Wolfgang Palaver
Partial commitments and universal obligations / Paul Dumouchel
A reluctant cosmopolitan / Anne Phillips
Liberal autonomy and minority accommodation : a new approach / Geoffrey Brahm Levey
Cultural boundaries and the reasonable accommodation of minorities : is secularism enough? / Gurpreet Mahajan
Arrow, Rawls and Sen : the transformation of political economy and the idea of liberalism / Reiko Gotoh
Conclusion : social bonds as freedom.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781782386940
1782386947
OCLC:
922581745

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