Social Bonds as Freedom
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Social Bonds as Freedom

Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Social Bonds as Freedom

Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Tables
  3. Introduction — Of Bonds and Boundaries
  4. Part I — Social Bonds in Transformation
  5. Chapter 1 — Incompleteness and the Possibility of Making: Towards Denationalized Citizenship?
  6. Chapter 2 — Justice and Culture: New Contradictions in the Era of Techno-Nihilist Capitalism
  7. Chapter 3 — Making Commonality in the Plural on the Basis of Binding Engagements
  8. Chapter 4 — On the Poverty of Our Freedom: Relevance and Limits of the Hegelian Ethical System
  9. Part II — Beyond Imperial Univesalism
  10. Chapter 5 — Western Humanitarianism and the Representation of Distant Suffering: A Genealogy of Moral Grammars and Visual Regimes
  11. Chapter 6 — Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism: On the Deep Difficulties to Create Solidarity without Outside Enemies
  12. Chapter 7 — Partial Commitments and Universal Obligations
  13. Chapter 8 — A Reluctant Cosmopolitan
  14. Part III — Towards a Reconceptualization of Liberalism
  15. Chapter 9 — Liberal Autonomy and Minority Accommodation: A New Approach
  16. Chapter 10 — Cultural Boundaries and the Reasonable Accommodation of Minorities: Is Secularism Enough?
  17. Chapter 11 — Arrow, Rawls and Sen: The Transformation of Political Economics and the Idea of Liberalism
  18. Conclusion: Social Bonds as Freedom
  19. Index