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Paul Dumouchel - Social Bonds As Freedom: Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular - 9781782386933 - V9781782386933
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Social Bonds As Freedom: Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular

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Description for Social Bonds As Freedom: Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular Hardcover. 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.. Editor(s): Dumouchel, Paul; Gotoh, Reiko. Num Pages: 296 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPA; JPV. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 159 x 273 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782386933
SKU
V9781782386933
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Ref
99-15

About Paul Dumouchel
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Social Bonds As Freedom: Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular
“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 ... Read more

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