Identity, political freedom, and collective responsibility : the pillars and foundations of global ethics /
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| Author / Creator: | Souffrant, Eddy M., 1959- author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. |
| Description: | xiv, 245 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Future of minority studies Future of minority studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9861618 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Identity
- 1. Collective Identity
- Introduction
- Sources of Identity
- Singular and Collective Identity
- Cartesian Collective Identities
- 2. Common Identity: Linguistic and Racial Identity
- 3. Using History and Nation as Structures of Identity
- National Identity
- Global Citizenry: The State's Way
- 4. From Regional to Global Identity
- Expressions and Forms of Identity
- 5. Créole, Créolité, Créolization
- Natural Adaptations
- 6. Contextual Identities
- The Nature of Identity
- Liberating Identities from Oppressive Institutions
- 7. Identity and Social Negotiations
- Oppressive Liberties
- 8. Contemporary Options
- Emancipatory Identities
- Composite Identities
- Composite Identities: The Caribbean Condition
- Diasporic Identities
- 9. Pineau's Reminder: The Creative Process
- Whence Does a Writer Derive Her Sense of Identity?
- 10. Caribbean Philosophy: In Guise of a Conclusion
- Approach to a Resolution
- Its Used Markers (Color/Language)
- Part II. Democracies: Thoughts of Informal Democracy, Moral Prescription, Globalization, and Sovereignty
- 11. The Polity
- Philosophy and Contemporary Realities
- Citizenship and Informal Democracy
- 12. Global Democracy and Sovereign International Agents
- David Held's Cosmopolitan Democracy
- 13. Lessons for Global Democracy
- Sovereignty, Democracy, and Globalization
- Global Democracy at the Crossroads
- The Principle of Responsibility
- 14. Transnational Ethics
- Multiple Appurtenance and Anarchy
- 15. Migration
- Informal Democracy
- 16. Searching for Freedoms
- Political Representation in Informal Democracies
- Public Accountability
- 17. Inclusion and Accountability
- 18. Toward a Collective Responsibility
- Part III. Morality: Morality, Unpredictability, and Collective Responsibility
- 19. Morality in an Unpredictable World
- Introduction
- Moral Philosophy in the Present
- Morality in Real Contexts
- Moral Liberators
- Moral Activism
- 20. On Being Moral
- Inclusive Morality
- Social Belongingness
- Moral Agency and the Collective
- Agent Responsibility and Nontraditional Agency
- 21. Three Conceptions of Collective Responsibility
- Protecting the Vulnerable
- Responsibility in the State of Nature
- Group Responsibility
- 22. Examples of Collective Responsibility in Practice
- Health Insurance and Collective Responsibility
- Wal-Mart and Collective Responsibility
- Conclusion
- Part IV. Conclusion: Thoughts on a Caribbean Philosophy and on How Not to Do Global Ethics
- 23. Africana Modernity, Global Justice, and Collective Responsibility
- Introduction
- Africana Cosmopolitanism
- 24. Allegiance, Global Ideologies, and Contemporary Directions
- Vigilance of Survival
- Douglass's Haiti
- Douglass's Liberalism
- Expansionism and, Imperial Service
- Douglass's Allegiance to American Liberalism
- The Datum of Modernity
- 25. Radicalism a la Mode or Outmoded
- Global Justice
- 26. Collective Responsibility Revisited
- Conclusion
- Work Cited
- Notes
- Index
