Solidarity in Individualized Societies : Recognition, Justice and Good Judgement
Søren. Juul
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Medvirkende | Juul, S²ren. (Author)
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (241 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Front Cover; Solidarity in Individualized Societies; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1. Ideas, theoretical perspectives and assumptions; Background and purpose; Trends in the sociology of solidarity and the present book; The perception of critique and the critical analyses; Assumptions and review of the chapters; Part I: Meta-theoretical orientation; 2. A critical hermeneutic approach; The destinction between 'is' and 'ought': cognitivism versus non-cognitivism; The rehabilitation of prejudice of philosophical hermeneutics; Hermeneutics and critical theory. - 4.Recognition: the formal condition of the good lifeThe politics of recognition and the struggle over the concept; Redistribution or recognition (the Faser/Hnneth debate); Hegel's idea of recognition; The relevance of Hegel today; Honneth's systematic re-actualization of Hegel; The three spheres of recognition; Critique and reconstruction of Honneth's theory; The ideal of recognition is unconditional but not everything must be recognized; Das Recht der Freiheit - an answer to the critique?; Summary; 5.Contexts of justice and good judgement; Contexts of justice (Rainer Forst). - Critique: when the contexts intersectAn inclusive political community; The nation state and global solidarity; Principles of justice, judgement and the struggle for convictions; Summary; Part III: The critical analysis; 6.Modernity and solidarity: a critique of cultural judgement; Optimism and ambivalence in the sociology of modernity; Modern science and the loss of authority of ethics and legal rights; The distorted ideal of authenticity; Radicalized individualization in the era of new capitalism; Instrumental reason and inhumanity in heavy and liquid modernity; Globalization and solidarity. - Notes. - Summary7.The ideal of solidarity and the transformation of the welfare state; The ideological foundations of the 'social democratic'welfare state; Neoliberalism and transitions of the political judgement; New public management and steering through contracts; 'Something for something'; From welfare to workfare; The present economic crisis, growth policies and solidarity; Summary; 8.Conclusions; Summary; The critical hermeneutical approach (part I); The normative concept of solidarity (part II); The critique of prevalent forms of judgement (part III); Societal and social scientific challenges. - The turn towards recognition theory within critical theoryPractical reason and judgement; Judgement in the works of aristotle and kant; In favour of a hermeneutic concept of judgement; Summary; Part II: The normative ideal; 3.The discussion of the good versus the just; Political liberalism and contract-theoretical perceptions of justice; Rawls' theory of social justice; Nozick versus rawls; The critique of communitarianism; What are goods and what must be equal? (The 'capabilityapproach'); The ethics of discourse and reflective solidarity; Summary. - In today's individualized, culturally diverse and globalized society, many sociologists have concluded that the conceptualizations developed by classical sociology are no longer sufficient to promote social cohesion. So what kind of solidarity can achieve this? Engaging with recent thought in social and political theory and philosophy (including Honneth, Forst, Ricoeur, Bauman, Sennett, Taylor, Rawls, MacIntyre and many others), this book develops a renewed concept of solidarity based on the notion of 'recognition' with regard to others. With attention to the implications of s
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| ISBN | 9780415640985
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