European solidarity
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European solidarity
(Studies in social and political thought, 16)
Liverpool University Press, 2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Calls for solidarity are always accompanied by feelings of urgency. This is true both for the multifarious practical expressions of solidarity and for the intellectual usages of the concept. At the outbreak of the war in Iraq, for instance, the word and concept of 'solidarity' were brought to the fore by three of the most influential thinkers of our time, Jurgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. However, solidarity is still used as a mere buzzword by a surprisingly broad spectrum of the political world. The book has a twofold central objective: it aims both at proposing a variety of sophisticated historical and theoretical reconceptualisations of solidarity and at exposing and spelling out the practical implications of contemporary expressions of solidarity. These two objectives are tightly related by their common frame of reference: European societies and, possibly in the future, a European polity. Thus, a first, historical and theoretical part explores the emergence, consolidation and challenging of the concept of solidarity in the context of differences in social, religious and political conditions within Europe. A second, more 'empirical' part investigates the most crucial challenges posed to solidarity in the European space: the EU integration process itself, immigration, Islam, the relation of Western Europe to Eastern Europe, and to developing countries.
Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Solidarity in Europe - Politics, Religion, Knowledge
- Nathalie Karagiannis, University of Trento
- Part 1: Theory of European Solidarity
- 1 Freedom and Solidarity: Retrieving the European Political Tradition of Non-individualist Liberalism Peter Wagner, European University Institute, Florence, and the University of Warwick
- 2 Goli Otok: The Formation of the New Man Senadin Musabegovic, University of Mostar Dzemal Bijedic
- 3 Solidarite and Solidaritat: The Concept of Solidarity in France and Germany in the Nineteenth Century Thomas Fiegle, University of Potsdam
- 4 Organic Versus Relational Solidarity: Roots of Islam in Europe Armando Salvatore, Mediterranean Foundation, Naples, and at the Institute of Social Science, Humboldt University, Berlin
- 5 Who Needs Social Solidarity? William Outhwaite, University of Sussex
- 6 The Politics of 'Us': On the Possibility of Solidarity Without Substance Mihnea Panu, University of Birmingham
- Part 2: Contemporary Boundaries of Solidarity in Europe
- 7 Obligations Versus Costs: Types and Contexts of Solidary Action Claus Offe, Humboldt University, Berlin
- 8 Forms and Prospects of European Solidarity Steffen Mau, University of Bremen
- 9 'Catching Up With the West': The Impact on Eastern European Solidarity Raluca Parvu, Oxford Brookes University
- 10 Non-solidarity and Unemployment in the 'New West' Herwig Reiter, European University Institute in Florence
- 11 Euro-Islam, Islam in Europe, or Europe Revised Through Islam? Versions of Muslim Solidarity Within European Borders Schirin Amir-Moazami, Humboldt-University in Berlin and at the Europa-Universtiat Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder
- 12 European Solidarity With the 'Rest of the World' Nathalie Karagiannis, University of Trento.
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