Solidarity (eBook, ePUB)

Theory and Practice
Redaktion: Laitinen, Arto; Pessi, Anne Birgitta

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together philosophers, social psychologists and social scientists to approach contemporary social reality from the viewpoint of solidarity. It examines the nature of different kinds of solidarity and assesses the normative and explanatory potential of the concept. Various aspects of solidarity as a special emotionally and ethically responsive relation are studied: the nature of collective emotions and mutual recognition, responsiveness to others' suffering and needs, and the nature of moral partiality included in solidarity. The evolution of norms of solidarity is examined both via the natural evolution of the human "social brain" and via the institutional changes in legal constitutions and contemporary work life. This text will appeal to students, scholars, and anyone interested in the interdisciplinary topic of social solidarity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739177280
• Artikelnr.: 42132948

Autorenporträt

Arto Laitinen is professor of philosophy at University of Tampere. Anne Birgitta Pessi is professor in church and social studies at the University of Helsinki.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Solidarity-Theory and Practice. An Introduction
Arto Laitinen & Anne Birgitta Pessi 2. Solidarity-Unpacking the Social Brain
Siegwart Lindenberg 3. Collective Emotions as the 'Glue' of Group Solidarity
Mikko Salmela 4. Empathy and our Relations to Others
Kristen Renwick Monroe 5. Solidarity
Moral Recognition
and Communality
Simon Derpmann 6. From Recognition to Solidarity: Universal Respect
Mutual Support
and Social Unity
Arto Laitinen 7. Solidarity and Work: a Reassessment
Nicholas H. Smith 8. Solidarity in Times of Crisis-Constitutional Evolution and Europe
Hauke Brunkhorst 9. National Social Models and Helping Others in the European Union
Juho Saari & Anne Birgitta Pessi 10. Solidarity and Motivations to Help Others: the Case of Finns
Arto Laitinen & Anne Birgitta Pessi 11. Solidarity in a Nordic Welfare State: the Case of Finland
Heikki Hiilamo 12. Distant Suffering
Volunteering
and Solidarity
Bente Nicolaysen