CHAPTER 3 Making Commonality in the Plural on the Basis of Binding Engagements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Tables VII
4. INTRODUCTION Of Bonds and Boundaries 1
5. PART I Social Bonds in Transformation
6. CHAPTER 1 Incompleteness and the Possibility of Making: Towards Denationalized Citizenship? 27
7. CHAPTER 2 Justice and Culture: New Contradictions in the Era of Techno-Nihilist Capitalism 57
8. CHAPTER 3 Making Commonality in the Plural on the Basis of Binding Engagements 82
9. CHAPTER 4 On the Poverty of Our Freedom: Relevance and Limits of the Hegelian Ethical System 109
10. PART II Beyond Imperial Universalism
11. CHAPTER 5 Western Humanitarianism and the Representation of Distant Suffering: A Genealogy of Moral Grammars and Visual Regimes 127
12. CHAPTER 6 Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism: On the Deep Difficulties to Create Solidarity without Outside Enemies 153
13. CHAPTER 7 Partial Commitments and Universal Obligations 174
14. CHAPTER 8 A Reluctant Cosmopolitan 192
15. PART III Towards a Reconceptualization of Liberalism
16. CHAPTER 9 Liberal Autonomy and Minority Accommodation: A New Approach 215
17. CHAPTER 10 Cultural Boundaries and the Reasonable Accommodation of Minorities: Is Secularism Enough? 239
18. CHAPTER 11 Arrow, Rawls and Sen: The Transformation of Political Economics and the Idea of Liberalism 259
19. Conclusion: Social Bonds as Freedom 285
20. Index 291