Solidarity in Open Societies

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At a time of increasing fragmentation, growing social tension and global forced migration, solidarity is more than ever an endangered social resource. In this volume, scientists from different disciplines analyze the idea of solidarity, its analytical content as well as practical scope and limits for pluralistic and cosmopolitan societies. Front Matter ....Pages I-VIII Introduction (Jörg Althammer, Bernhard Neumärker, Ursula Nothelle-Wildfeuer)....Pages 1-2 Front Matter ....Pages 3-3 Solidarity: From small communities to global societies (Jörg Althammer)....Pages 5-23 Solidarity as a System of Norms (Ulf Tranow)....Pages 25-55 Solidarity and Responsibility (Henning Nörenberg)....Pages 57-78 From Civic Virtue to the Informal Sphere (Seth Mayer)....Pages 79-101 Reconcilable Ambiguities? (Thomas C. Kohler)....Pages 103-119 Autonomous responsibility within the framework of James Griffin’s concept of personhood (Marta Szabat)....Pages 121-131 Anthropological Solidarity in Early Marx (Henry W. Pickford)....Pages 133-151 Beyond the Lockean Limits of Tolerating the Intolerable: What Could Solidarity Offer? (Kaisa Iso-Herttua)....Pages 153-171 If solidarity is the answer, what was the question? (Johanna Ahola-Launonen)....Pages 173-190 Front Matter ....Pages 191-191 Principles of morals, natural law, and politics in dealing with refugees (Vittorio Hösle)....Pages 193-218 Cooperating fairly (Jörg Althammer, Maximilian Sommer)....Pages 219-234 Ethnocentric solidarity (Dominik Skala)....Pages 235-247 Showing Solidarity as an Ethical Response to Displaced and Weak Persons (Emanuel John)....Pages 249-265 Migration Policy (Margit Osterloh, Bruno S. Frey)....Pages 267-282