Daily Archives: 28 November, 2010
Claus Offe
On Sharing Responsibility
Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture “Responsibility” is a triadic concept: Someone is responsible to someone (or even “all of us”) for (refraining from) doing something. The concept plays a role in political ethics (Weber’s famous “ethics of responsibility”) as well as in theories of distributive justice (the rule that you should be rewarded in proportion to …
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Jennifer L. Hochschild: How Did the 2008 Economic Crisis Affect Social and Political Solidarity in Europe?
One possible outcome of the economic crash of 2008 was that the majority or mainstream members of a society would direct their anger and fear against the minority or marginal members of their society. Commentators on television or the radio would claim, “it’s all the fault of the immigrants!” or “if we didn’t hand over …
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