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Fraternity as an Overlooked Element in Global Politics / edited by Joanna Kulska and Anna M. Solarz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in social and political thought
- Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World politics.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
- Contents:
- Foreword. Introduction: fraternity as an overlooked element in global politics. Section 1: Defining the term and the contexts. Chapter 1. Between community and conflict: an attempt to reconstruct the theoretical discourse on fraternity. Chapter 2. Solidarity, fraternity, sorority: reflections from the individualist-collectivist intercultural continuum. Chapter 3. What we owe each other: fraternity, solidarity or mutual respect? A liberal perspective. Chapter 4. Religious reasons and democratic deliberation: a critique of exclusivist approaches in political theory. Chapter 5. "Friendship" as a political concept in Thomas Aquinas: an alternative to "fraternity"? Chapter 6. "Universal brotherhood": a religious or secular concept? On the idea of human fraternity in Fratelli tutti and monotheistic religious traditions. Section 2: From theory to practice. Chapter 7. Between rights and duties: fraternity as a post-secular concept. Chapter 8. "Spirit of Assisi", Fratelli tutti, human fraternity: the prayer meetings for peace of the Community of Sant'Egidio in a historical perspective. Chapter 9. The "Solidarity" movement: a Polish-style brotherhood - an attempt to explain the phenomenon through the prism of its religious component. Section 3: Between idea and reality. Chapter 10. Brotherhood without brothers. Chapter 11. The notion of "brotherly people" in the service of Russian neo-imperialism: the image of Ukraine and Ukrainians in Russian strategic documents and security debate after 2014. Chapter 12. Brotherhood and solidarity in Latvia: the context of history, war and migration. Section 4: Non-Western alternatives (?) Chapter 13. Branding human brotherhood in Saudi Arabia: limits and resources for global politics. Chapter 14. Tablighi Jamaat in Iran: borderless fraternity with global ambitions. Chapter 15. Ubuntu: African personhood and the reconstitution of global community. Afterword: fraternity can change the world . . . for the better?
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed April 1, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9781003622437
- 1003622437
- 9781040354087
- 1040354084
- 9781040354094
- 1040354092
- Publisher Number:
- 40032730895
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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