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■ DUMOUCHEL Paul & GOTOH Reiko (Eds.)　August 2015　Social Bonds as Freedom: Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular，Berghahn Books, 296p.　ISBN-10:1782386939　ISBN-13:978-1782386933　[amazon]

■Contents

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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

Introduction: Of Bonds and Boundaries
Paul Dumouchel & Reiko Gotoh

Part I: Social bonds in transformation

Chapter 1. Incompleteness and the Possibility of Making: Towards denationalized citizenship?
Saskia Sassen

Chapter 2. Justice and Culture: New contradictions in the era of techno-nihilistic capitalism
Mauro Magatti

Chapter 3. Bounded Justifiability: Making commonality on the basis of binding engagements
Laurent Thévenot

Chapter 4. On the Poverty of our Freedom
Axel Honneth

Part II: Beyond imperial universalism

Chapter 5. Western Humanitarianism and the Representation of Distant Suffering: A genealogy of moral grammars and visual regimes
Fuyuki Kurasawa

Chapter 6. Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism: On the deep difficulties of creating solidarity without outside enemies
Wolfgang Palaver

Chapter 7. Partial Commitments and Universal Obligations
Paul Dumouchel

Chapter 8. A Reluctant Cosmopolitan
Anne Phillips

Part III: Towards a re-conceptualization of liberalism

Chapter 9. Liberal Autonomy and Minority Accommodation: A new approach
Geoffrey Brahm Levey

Chapter 10. Cultural Boundaries and the Reasonable Accommodation of Minorities: Is secularism enough?
Gurpreet Mahajan

Chapter 11. Arrow, Rawls and Sen: The Transformation of Political Economy and the Idea of Liberalism
Reiko Gotoh

Conclusion: Social bonds as freedom

Notes on Contributors
Index