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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495242303321

Titolo

The politics of humanity : justice and power / / Richard A. Cohen, Tito Marci, Luca Scuccimarra, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-75957-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 pages)

Disciplina

909.83

Soggetti

World politics - 21st century

Democracy - History - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Politics, Humanity, Power and Justice -- References -- Part I: Principles of Justice -- Chapter 2: Ethics of Hospitality: The Limits of Cosmopolitan Rights -- Introduction -- The Problem of Identity, or Identity as a Problem -- Memories of Extraneousness -- The Institution of Hospitality -- Reciprocal Extraneousness -- References -- Chapter 3: Naked Humanity Beyond the Inevitable Ceremonial -- Vasily Grossman -- Aristotle -- Antonio Gramsci and Kant -- Heinrich Heine -- Herman Melville -- Emmanuel Levinas -- Socrates -- References -- Chapter 4: Globalization and Cosmopolitanization: Reassessing the 'Humanitarian Turn' of International Politics Thirty Years Later -- Foreword: Globalization and International Order -- The Great Transformation -- Military Interventionism and 'Responsibility to Protect' -- Conceiving the 'Humanitarian Turn' of International Politics: The Cosmopolitan Paradigm -- Cosmopolitan Morality and Democratic Self-Determination -- References -- Chapter 5: Vulnerability and Intimacy: Ethical Foundations for Social Relations in Confucius and Levinas -- The Natural Attitude Toward Vulnerability and Intimacy -- Ethical Foundations of Social Relations Through Vulnerability and Intimacy -- A Confucian Approach to Social Relations -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Dangers to Justice -- Chapter 6: Migration Crisis and the Rise of Anti-humanitarian Populism in Europe



-- Crisis? What Crisis? -- Semantics of the Crisis and Migration Policies -- 'Migrant Crisis' and Anti-humanitarian Populism -- References -- Chapter 7: The Future of Justice: Politics, Time and the Contemporary Political Triangulation-Liberalism, Socialism and Fascism -- Introduction: Politics and Time -- Politics, Time and Ethics -- Triangulation: Liberal Democracy, Social Democracy and Fascism.

Furious Fascism -- References -- Chapter 8: What Is Radically Wrong? -- Introduction -- The Primacy of Instrumental-Rational Action Over Other Ways to Act in Modern Society -- The Process of Legal Deregulation and Contemporary Society -- The Principle of General Exchange -- References -- Chapter 9: Totalitarianism, State and Civil Society: The Case of Hong Kong -- Introduction -- Totalitarianism as Nihilism -- State and Civil Society -- Post-totalitarianism -- Civil Society as a Work of Art -- References -- Index.