Freedom and Solidarity - Fred Dallmayr

Freedom and Solidarity

Toward New Beginnings

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Buch | Hardcover
250 Seiten
2015
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6578-3 (ISBN)
44,85 inkl. MwSt
Fred Dallmayr seeks to bridge the gap between the self and the outside world in Freedom and Solidarity. Drawing on new scholarship and his work with the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations, he challenges dominant worldviews and heralds new possibilities for political thought and practice.
The prevailing Western paradigm is modernity: a model focused on individual liberty, secularism, and the scientific control of nature. This worldview emerged from the break with the medieval and classical past and advanced a philosophy in which the solitary mind opposes the rest of the world. Although there is a simple appeal in this binary structure, history has shown that it is neither socially nor politically innocuous.

In Freedom and Solidarity, noted political theorist and humanist Fred Dallmayr seeks to bridge the gap between the self and the outside world. Drawing on new scholarship and his work with the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations, a global, nongovernmental organization of distinguished thinkers, he challenges dominant worldviews and heralds new possibilities for political thought and practice. Dallmayr argues that while we need not reject all the values of modernity, it is imperative that we resist the simplifications inherent in dualism and fundamentally reassess the notions of freedom and solidarity.

Engaging a breathtaking array of influential thinkers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Henry David Thoreau, Gandhi, Albert Camus, John Dewey, and Dimitry Likhachev, Dallmayr explores the possibility of a transition from the modern paradigm -- a mode of life presently in decay -- toward a new beginning in which freedom and solidarity can be reconciled, making it possible for humanity to flourish on a global scale.

Fred Dallmayr is Emeritus Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, USA. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Being in the World: Dialogue and Cosmopolis and Comparative Political Theory.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.12.2015
Verlagsort Lexington
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Europäische / Internationale Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8131-6578-4 / 0813165784
ISBN-13 978-0-8131-6578-3 / 9780813165783
Zustand Neuware
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