Overview

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.

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Author:   Paul Dumouchel ,  Reiko Gotoh
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781782386933

ISBN 10:   1782386939
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 August 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

“This excellent set of essays offers a fantastic contribution to how we might consider the relation between the national and the global in modern political thought, written by many of the leading international figures in the field….A terrific resource for anyone interested in engaging more deeply with the ways we should conceive liberal democracy in light of globalization with far reaching implications for politics, philosophy and public policy.”  ·  Thom Brooks, Durham University “This book contains the best and the most original and innovative contributions I ever read on how to consider national and global political issues beyond the current dichotomy we find in contemporary literature….The book will be an indispensable tool for all those who are interested in the future of Liberal Democracy…”  ·  Lukas K. Sosoe, University of Luxembourg

This excellent set of essays offers a fantastic contribution to how we might consider the relation between the national and the global in modern political thought, written by many of the leading international figures in the field....A terrific resource for anyone interested in engaging more deeply with the ways we should conceive liberal democracy in light of globalization with far reaching implications for politics, philosophy and public policy. * Thom Brooks, Durham University This book contains the best and the most original and innovative contributions I ever read on how to consider national and global political issues beyond the current dichotomy we find in contemporary literature....The book will be an indispensable tool for all those who are interested in the future of Liberal Democracy... * Lukas K. Sosoe, University of Luxembourg

This excellent set of essays offers a fantastic contribution to how we might consider the relation between the national and the global in modern political thought, written by many of the leading international figures in the field - A terrific resource for anyone interested in engaging more deeply with the ways we should conceive liberal democracy in light of globalization with far reaching implications for politics, philosophy and public policy. * Thom Brooks, Durham University This book contains the best and the most original and innovative contributions I ever read on how to consider national and global political issues beyond the current dichotomy we find in contemporary literature - The book will be an indispensable tool for all those who are interested in the future of Liberal Democracy - * Lukas K. Sosoe, University of Luxembourg

Author Information

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).

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