European Solidarity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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European Solidarity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives is written by Francesco Tava and published by ECPR Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1910259934 (ISBN 10) and 9781910259931 (ISBN 13).

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 specialising in variety of 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 picture of European solidarity, highlighting its main features, limits, and potentialities. This book, which gathers contributions from scholars specialising in a variety of disciplines – including political philosophy, international and European law, intellectual history, and the social sciences – 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. The volume is a must-read for anyone who has wondered why solidarity is such an important value within 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 J. Scholz, Villanova University