Community, Solidarity and Belonging: Levels of Community and Their Normative Significance

ISBN-13: 9780521631297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str.

Andrew Mason

Opis

Communities can be of different kinds, and exist at different levels in society. What kind of community is valuable at the level of the state and what is its significance for communities above and below that level? This book systematically explores the limits that ideals of political community place on cultural diversity within the state, and the limits that, in turn, ideals of global community place on the self-determination of political communities. It will be of interest to students of political theory, philosophy and international relations.

Recenzje

'Andrew Mason has written an illuminating and wonderfully stimulating book about important and difficult issues. Students of political thoery, philosophy, and international relations should read it not merely with interest, but with profit.' Richard Dagger, Arizona State University

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Community and its Value: 1. The nature of community; 2. The value of community; Part II. Political Community in a Culturally Diverse Society: 3. Liberal political community and illiberal minorities; 4. Republican political community; 5. National community: the benefits of a sense of belonging together; 6. Multicultural education for an inclusive political community; Part III. Political Community and the Limits of Global Community: 7. The ideal of global community and the principle of non-intervention; 8. Political communities, global solidarity and the state system; Conclusion.