The Order of the World in House and State: Governing Social Life in a West-Eastern Comparison

ISBN-13: 9783658384593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Wolf Rainer Wendt

Opis

In the world, the home and the state prove themselves and change as basic institutions of human coexistence. They are the subject of a comparative study on an ecotheoretical basis. In the global context, the modes of social control have developed differently in the home and the state. In and with them, order is created in the world and for the individual and collective conduct of life. The institutional frameworks of house and state in the world are ways of shaping existence that are juxtaposed in their European-Occidental and East Asian forms: Their discussion takes place along the ancient Greek basic concepts and forms of thought of the oikos, the polis and the cosmos on the one hand and the ancient Chinese categories jia, guo and tianxia on the other. They are discussed with their ethical, political and economic references in their traditional and contemporary meaning and with regard to their ecological sustainability. The interest in a discursive understanding of sustainable, life-serving orders in the face of global challenges is the guiding principle

Spis treści

1 Introduction

1.1 Cultures of existence and their ecology

1.2 Divergent semantics

1.3 How we are housed and governed

2 The space of action and the order of the home, the state and the world

2.1 The household

2.2 The State System

2.3 World order

3 The acting human being between oikos and cosmos

3.1 Indoors and outdoors

3.2 Intermediary political action

3.3 Cosmos in ecological format

3.4 Ritual order

4 Jia and Guo: Internal relations of governance

4.1 East Asian Familialism

4.2 The dimensions of Guo

4.3 The granting of freedoms

5 The State of East and West

5.1 The foundation of the modern state in Europe

5.2 The East Asian Character of the "State Family

5.3 The modernization of the state system in East Asia

5.4 Governance in Transition. Decline and renewal of statehood

6 The fabric of the common

6.1 Being integrated and unbound

6.2 Being subject and host

6.3 Community cohesion

7 Origin and disappearance of society

7.1 The Late Appearance of the Social

7.2 Social in distinction from the social

7.3 Society and its state

7.4 The East Asian Reconstruction of "Society

7.5 Civil society in and towards the state

8 Welfare regime

8.1 Welfare regimes in transition

8.2 Cultures of self-help and care

8.3 Productive and mixed welfare

9 Finding agreement "under the sky

9.1 Global liabilities

9.2 The concept of "harmony" or the pursuit of new agreement

9.3 "Everything under heaven" in political perspective

9.4 Conclusion

Literature

O autorze

Professor Dr. Wolf Rainer Wendt teaches at the Duale Hochschule BW Stuttgart and at other universities. He was chairman of the German Society for Social Work until 2009 and is honorary chairman of the German Society for Care and Case Management.

Blurb

As basic institutions of human coexistence in the world, the house and the state continue to prove themselves and to change. House (i. e., the domestic setting as the primary economic and social unit) and state are the subject of a comparative study on an ecotheoretical basis. In the global context, the modes of societal regulation have developed differently in the domestic sphere and in the sphere of the state. In them and with them, order is created in the world and for the individual and collective conduct of life. The institutional frameworks of house and state in the world are ways of shaping existence that are juxtaposed in their European-Occidental and East Asian forms: The treatment of the topic takes place along the ancient Greek basic concepts and forms of thought of the oikos, the polis and the cosmos on the one hand and the ancient Chinese categories jia, guo and tianxia on the other. They are discussed with their ethical, political and economic references in their traditional and contemporary meaning and with regard to their ecological viability. The interest in a discursive understanding of sustainable, life-serving orders in the face of global challenges is the guiding motive.

The Content

Introduction – The space of action and the order of the home, the state and the world - The acting human being between house and world - Jia and Guo: Internal relations of governance - The state system East and West - The structure of the common - Origin and disappearance of society - Responsibility for welfare - Finding agreement “under heaven” 

The author

Professor Dr. Wolf Rainer Wendt teaches at the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) Stuttgart and at other universities. He was chairman of the German Association of Social Work until 2009 and is honorary chairman of the German Society for Care and Case Management.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service Deepl.com).