Synopses & Reviews
Solidarity Beyond Borders is a collection on international ethics by a multidisciplinary team of scholars from four continents. The volume explores ethical and political dimensions of transnational solidarity in the emerging multipolar world. Analyzing global challenges of the world plagued by poverty, diseases, injustice, inequality and environmental degradation, the contributors - rooted in diverse cultures and ethical traditions - voice their support for 'solidarity beyond borders'. Bringing to light both universally shared ethical insights as well as the irreducible diversity of ethical perceptions of particular problems helps the reader to appreciate the chances and the challenges that the global community - more interconnected and yet more ideologically fragmented than ever before - faces in the coming decades.
Solidarity Beyond Borders exemplifies an innovative approach to the key issues of global ethics which takes into account the processes of economic globalization, leading to an ever deeper interdependence of peoples and states, as well as the increasing cultural and ideological fragmentation which characterize the emerging multipolar world order.
About the Author
Janusz Salamon is Senior Lecturer in Moral and Political Philosophy at Charles University in Prague and Adjunct Professor at New York University Prague, Czech Republic. He is Associate Member of the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion, University of Birmingham, UK and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal for the Philosophy of Religion.
Table of Contents
Preface
Roger SCRUTON
1. Solidarity Beyond Europe?
Steinar STJERNO (Oslo University College)
2. Human Solidarity in Need and Fulfilment: A Vision of Political Friendship
Patrick RIORDAN (Heythrop College, University of London)
3. Justice as Solidarity: Between Statism and Cosmopolitanism
Sebastiano MAFFETTONE (LUISS University, Rome)
4. Toward a Global Ethic of Nonviolence
Charles P. WEBEL & Sofia KHAYDARI (University of New York in Prague)
5. Moral Imagination and the Art of Solidarity
Anna ABRAM (Heythrop College, University of London)
6. Gendering Transnational Solidarity: Equality, Respect or Inclusion?
Christien van den ANKER (University of the West of England, Bristol)
7. Morality and Social Solidarity from the Perspective of Chinese Philosophy
Guorong YANG (East China Normal University, Shanghai)
8 What Are They Doing Here? - Jews in the Global Apartment House
Jerome Yehuda GELLMAN (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
9. Muslim Ethics in an Era of Globalism
Ebrahim MOOSA (Duke University)
10. Global Justice, Ethical Pluralism and Solidarity Beyond Religious Borders
Janusz SALAMON (Charles University in Prague)
11. Is Universal Solidarity Possible?
Gerald J. BEYER (Villanova University, Philadelphia)
Notes on Authors
Index