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‘This book, which gathers contributions from scholars specialising in a variety of disciplines, aims to combine theoretical and empirical research to better understand what European solidarity is and what it could become. It spans widely across different aspects of European integration, and sheds significant light on how the ideal of solidarity informs and should inform debates on, among others, the Covid, financial, and refugee crises.A must-read for anyone who has wondered why solidarity is such an important value in the European Union, and what can be done to deepen and extend it.’
—Andrea Sangiovanni, King’s College London ‘This is a valuable addition to the literature on European solidarity, bringing together interdisciplinary contributions from established and junior scholars across Europe.The book will be of value to those interested in philosophical thought on solidarity, as well as to those exploring it from a more practical perspective, whether in relation to the European migration crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic management, or other contemporary challenges that face the European Union, its member states, and its people today.’ —Eglė Dagilytė, Anglia Ruskin University Law School ‘Innovative and timely, each essay in this engaging collection addresses a different facet of solidarity, a concept widely used but little understood in the public sphere. With its presumption of equity and inclusion, solidarity exercises significant rhetorical power within the European context. Tava and Quénivet have gathered an invaluable compendium to the study of European solidarity that promises to expand critical engagement of solidarity in political theory, philosophy, law, and related fields.’ —Sally Scholz, Villanova University |
What is solidarity and what makes us think it is something important? Is it just an abstract idea or something more like a prosocial practice that can grow to inform legal regulations and political decisions? How is it that solidarity is so widespread in everyday language while this rarely corresponds to concrete applications of this principle? And what kind of application does solidarity find in the European context, historically and in the present?
European Solidarity gathers insight into all these questions, from scholars in fields including philosophy, political science, international law, sociology, and intellectual history. By focusing on its conceptual genesis, the thinkers and contexts that contributed to its evolution, and the practices that aim at implementing it, this book provides an interdisciplinary pictureof European solidarity, highlighting its main features, limits, and potentialities.
FRANCESCO TAVA is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Social Sciences at UWE Bristol
NOËLLE QUÉNIVET is Professor in International Law at the Bristol Law School of UWE Bristol.
European Solidarity gathers insight into all these questions, from scholars in fields including philosophy, political science, international law, sociology, and intellectual history. By focusing on its conceptual genesis, the thinkers and contexts that contributed to its evolution, and the practices that aim at implementing it, this book provides an interdisciplinary pictureof European solidarity, highlighting its main features, limits, and potentialities.
FRANCESCO TAVA is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the School of Social Sciences at UWE Bristol
NOËLLE QUÉNIVET is Professor in International Law at the Bristol Law School of UWE Bristol.
This book originated from the international conference "International Perspectives on European Solidarity," which took place in Bristol on 24-25 June 2019. For more details about this event, please click here.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword, Frank Vandenbroucke
Editors’ Introduction, Francesco Tava and Noëlle Quénivet
Part I – Concepts
Chapter 1: Solidarity: A Realist View, Andreas Busen
Chapter 2: The Solidarity Deficit of the European Union: A Missing Functional Value, Carlo Burelli and Niccolò T. Donati
Chapter 3: Consensus and Identity: Solidarity and its Conceptual Risks, Marie Wachinger
Chapter 4: Solidarity in European Union Law: More an Abstract Ideal than a Substantive Principle, Harriet Gray
Chapter 5: The Blind Spots of European Solidarity: Democratic Empowerment and the Constructive Potential of Conflict, Alexander Heindl
Part II – Contexts and Thinkers
Chapter 6: Jürgen Habermas on European Solidarity, Alessandro Volpe
Chapter 7: Thinking without a Banister: On Hannah Arendt and Solidarity, Karolin-Sophie Stüber
Chapter 8: European Solidarity as Negative Solidarity: An Adornian Approach, Dagmar Wilhelm
Chapter 9: East European Solidarity in the Global History of Solidarity, Michael Gubser
Chapter 10: Solidarity and the Founders of the EU, Roberto Castaldi
Part III – Practices
Chapter 11: The Democratization of Solidarity through Science (in Europe and Beyond), Robert Gianni
Chapter 12: Aid and Solidarity: Ambivalent Practices with Transformative Potentials, Eva Fleischmann
Chapter 13: The European Agenda on Migration, Yasha Maccanico
Chapter 14: The Criminalization of Solidarity in Today’s European Union, Christian Dadomo, Noëlle Quénivet, and Francesco Tava
Chapter 15: Solidarity in Crisis? A Better “Pandemic Preparedness”, Barbara Prainsack
Editors’ Conclusion, Francesco Tava and Noëlle Quénivet
Editors’ Introduction, Francesco Tava and Noëlle Quénivet
Part I – Concepts
Chapter 1: Solidarity: A Realist View, Andreas Busen
Chapter 2: The Solidarity Deficit of the European Union: A Missing Functional Value, Carlo Burelli and Niccolò T. Donati
Chapter 3: Consensus and Identity: Solidarity and its Conceptual Risks, Marie Wachinger
Chapter 4: Solidarity in European Union Law: More an Abstract Ideal than a Substantive Principle, Harriet Gray
Chapter 5: The Blind Spots of European Solidarity: Democratic Empowerment and the Constructive Potential of Conflict, Alexander Heindl
Part II – Contexts and Thinkers
Chapter 6: Jürgen Habermas on European Solidarity, Alessandro Volpe
Chapter 7: Thinking without a Banister: On Hannah Arendt and Solidarity, Karolin-Sophie Stüber
Chapter 8: European Solidarity as Negative Solidarity: An Adornian Approach, Dagmar Wilhelm
Chapter 9: East European Solidarity in the Global History of Solidarity, Michael Gubser
Chapter 10: Solidarity and the Founders of the EU, Roberto Castaldi
Part III – Practices
Chapter 11: The Democratization of Solidarity through Science (in Europe and Beyond), Robert Gianni
Chapter 12: Aid and Solidarity: Ambivalent Practices with Transformative Potentials, Eva Fleischmann
Chapter 13: The European Agenda on Migration, Yasha Maccanico
Chapter 14: The Criminalization of Solidarity in Today’s European Union, Christian Dadomo, Noëlle Quénivet, and Francesco Tava
Chapter 15: Solidarity in Crisis? A Better “Pandemic Preparedness”, Barbara Prainsack
Editors’ Conclusion, Francesco Tava and Noëlle Quénivet
