Solidarity in a secular age from political theology to Jewish philosophy
"Solidarity refers to our normative commitment toward some person or set of people as well our psychological motivation to act on that commitment. Liberal democracies need solidarity for at least four reasons: stabilizing society, realizing justice, diminishing dependence, and cultivating moral...
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New York, NY
Oxford University Press
[2022]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : solidarity, liberalism, and Schmitt's challenge
- Part One. Solidarity through secularization
- When metaphor becomes myth : Rousseau, the general will, and democratic solidarity
- The kernel of unreason at the heart of enlightenment : Kant, spontaneity, and ethical solidarity
- The ethics of the aura : Habermas, the linguistification of the sacred, and discursive solidarity
- Part Two. Solidarity through imitation
- The "other" and the "I" : Levinas, negative theology, and solidarity as sacrifice
- The "essential we" : Buber, theopolitics, and solidarity as fate and destiny
- Solidarity in a secular age : the case of Daniel Deronda