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Solidarity in Open Societies

Jörg Althammer, Bernhard Neumärker, Ursula Nothelle-Wildfeuer, editors

Springer VS, c2019

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Description

At a time of increasing fragmentation, growing social tension and global forced migration, solidarity is more than ever an endangered social resource. In this volume, scientists from different disciplines analyze the idea of solidarity, its analytical content as well as practical scope and limits for pluralistic and cosmopolitan societies.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Theoretical Foundations.- Solidarity: From small communities to global societies.- Solidarity as a System of Norms.- Solidarity and Responsibility. Open Societies and the Ethics of Absolute Alterity.- From Civic Virtue to the Informal Sphere. Reorienting Democratic Theories of Solidarity.- Reconcilable Ambiguities? Solidarity from an American Perspective.- Autonomous responsibility within the framework of James Griffin's concept of personhood.- Anthropological and Political Solidarity in Early Marx.- Beyond the Lockean Limits of Tolerating the Intolerable: What Could Solidarity Offer?.- If solidarity is the answer, what was the question? "Thick" and "thin" solidarity and embedded conceptions of individual responsibility.- Applications.- Principles of morals, natural law, and politics in dealing with refugees.- Cooperating fairly: Economic Solidarity in Open Societies.- Ethnocentric solidarity.- Solidarity as Response to DiShowing Solidarity as an Ethical Response to Displaced and Weak Personssplacement and Repression.- Migration Policy: What can we learn from Cooperatives?.

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  • NCID
    BB29131657
  • ISBN
    • 9783658236403
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Wiesbaden
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 282 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
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