Social Bonds as Freedom
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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…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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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Autorenporträt
Reiko Gotoh is Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. She is the author of Economical Philosophy of Justice: Rawls and Sen (Toyo Keizai Shinposha, 2002, in Japanese) and co-edited, with Paul Dumouchel, Against Injustice: The New Economics of Amartya Sen (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and, with Amartya Sen,  Well-Being and Justice (University of Tokyo Press, 2008, in Japanese).