Social Bonds as Freedom

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).

• List of TablesIntroduction: Of Bonds and BoundariesPaul Dumouchel & Reiko GotohPart I: Social bonds in transformationChapter 1. Incompleteness and the Possibility of Making: Towards denationalized citizenship?Saskia SassenChapter 2. Justice and Culture: New contradictions in the era of techno-nihilistic capitalismMauro MagattiChapter 3. Bounded Justifiability: Making commonality on the basis of binding engagementsLaurent ThévenotChapter 4. On the Poverty of our FreedomAxel HonnethPart II: Beyond imperial universalismChapter 5. Western Humanitarianism and the Representation of Distant Suffering: A genealogy of moral grammars and visual regimesFuyuki KurasawaChapter 6. Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism: On the deep difficulties of creating solidarity without outside enemiesWolfgang PalaverChapter 7. Partial Commitments and Universal ObligationsPaul DumouchelChapter 8. A Reluctant CosmopolitanAnne PhillipsPart III: Towards a re-conceptualization of liberalismChapter 9. Liberal Autonomy and Minority Accommodation: A new approachGeoffrey Brahm LeveyChapter 10. Cultural Boundaries and the Reasonable Accommodation of Minorities: Is secularism enough?Gurpreet MahajanChapter 11. Arrow, Rawls and Sen: The Transformation of Political Economy and the Idea of LiberalismReiko GotohConclusion: Social bonds as freedomNotes on ContributorsIndex

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