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This collection of chapters explores the often-overlooked concept of fraternity, positioning it alongside freedom and equality as a vital pillar of political discourse from its ancient origins to contemporary practice.
In a comprehensive framework, the book delves into fraternity's evolving meanings, contexts and functions across Western and non-Western settings. It highlights fraternity's relational dimension, examining it as a term that overlaps with solidarity, community and civic friendship. The contributors investigate fraternity from three key perspectives: its ambivalence and complexity rooted in the tension between inward and outward orientations, and its dual presence in secular and religious discourse. By uncovering these layers, the chapters reveal how fraternity continues to shape and redefine our social and political landscapes.
Targeted towards students, academics and general readers, this thought-provoking anthology invites readers to reconsider the importance of fraternity in modern society and its potential to foster connections in an increasingly fragmented world.
Contents
Foreword. Introduction: fraternity as an overlooked element in global politics. Section 1: Defining the term and the contexts. Chapter 1. Between community and conflict: an attempt to reconstruct the theoretical discourse on fraternity. Chapter 2. Solidarity, fraternity, sorority: reflections from the individualist-collectivist intercultural continuum. Chapter 3. What we owe each other: fraternity, solidarity or mutual respect? A liberal perspective. Chapter 4. Religious reasons and democratic deliberation: a critique of exclusivist approaches in political theory. Chapter 5. "Friendship" as a political concept in Thomas Aquinas: an alternative to "fraternity"? Chapter 6. "Universal brotherhood": a religious or secular concept? On the idea of human fraternity in Fratelli tutti and monotheistic religious traditions. Section 2: From theory to practice. Chapter 7. Between rights and duties: fraternity as a post-secular concept. Chapter 8. "Spirit of Assisi", Fratelli tutti, human fraternity: the prayer meetings for peace of the Community of Sant'Egidio in a historical perspective. Chapter 9. The "Solidarity" movement: a Polish-style brotherhood - an attempt to explain the phenomenon through the prism of its religious component. Section 3: Between idea and reality. Chapter 10. Brotherhood without brothers. Chapter 11. The notion of "brotherly people" in the service of Russian neo-imperialism: the image of Ukraine and Ukrainians in Russian strategic documents and security debate after 2014. Chapter 12. Brotherhood and solidarity in Latvia: the context of history, war and migration. Section 4: Non-Western alternatives (?) Chapter 13. Branding human brotherhood in Saudi Arabia: limits and resources for global politics. Chapter 14. Tablighi Jamaat in Iran: borderless fraternity with global ambitions. Chapter 15. Ubuntu: African personhood and the reconstitution of global community. Afterword: fraternity can change the world . . . for the better?
