Integration by Cooperation: A Constructivist Social Theory and a Theory of the State and the Law

Cover......Page 1
Integration
by Cooperation......Page 4
ISBN 9783211994153......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
A. Introduction......Page 10
B. Social construction of “reality”......Page 16
a) Reciprocity and/or selfish individuality?......Page 18
b) Social construction of poverty......Page 22
a) Fighting with reality......Page 26
b) Consensus-based constructivism......Page 29
c) Decision instead of cognition......Page 33
C. Concept of humankind and community......Page 36
1. Neo homo oeconomicus – selfish individualism......Page 37
a) Selfish monads imprisoned......Page 38
b) Market-integration as divine harmony......Page 40
c) Religious hope or cynical disinterest instead of justice......Page 47
d) Core value – freedom to consume......Page 49
2. Homo interactivus – interdependent individuals......Page 50
a) “I” as me and the other......Page 51
b) Constitutive recognition by and of others......Page 54
c) Others......Page 55
d) Community – society......Page 57
f) The visible and responsible hands......Page 61
D. Integration process......Page 64
a) Constitutive consensus and value consensus......Page 66
b) Routine consensus......Page 67
c) Institutional consensus......Page 69
d) Legitimation consensus......Page 70
a) New construction phase......Page 73
b) Reproduction......Page 74
c) Deconstruction......Page 75
aa) Social construction of abnormality and criminality......Page 80
bb) Dissent between disintegration and confirmation......Page 82
cc) The minority we make......Page 84
3. Integration quality......Page 85
a) Direct violence, structural violence, cultural violence......Page 86
aa) Authoritarian integration......Page 89
bb) Competitive integration......Page 90
cc) Cooperative integration......Page 93
c) Integration work......Page 96
aa) Delimitations......Page 98
bb) Equal construction power......Page 100
a) Contingency – need for stability......Page 101
aa) Witches against disorientation......Page 103
bb) Exclusion for inclusion......Page 107
c) Stable change......Page 115
5. Collective identity......Page 116
a) Pleading for values......Page 120
b) Social construction of values......Page 122
c) Value-based or procedural? Partisanship or neutrality?......Page 124
d) Happiness......Page 128
e) Everything is about values......Page 130
1. Basic values......Page 133
aa) Social construction of life......Page 135
bb) Hope from support......Page 141
cc) Bringing people to kill......Page 143
aa) Contingency – freedom......Page 145
bb) Interactively constructed......Page 146
cc) A need for alternatives – pluralism......Page 150
aa) Delegation......Page 159
bb) Acting and responding......Page 161
cc) Systemic “reality” – politics without individuals......Page 162
dd) Standardization, bureaucratization......Page 165
aa) Human dignity – protection......Page 168
bb) Equal construction power......Page 172
e) Solidarity......Page 181
aa) Constitutive effect......Page 182
bb) Support......Page 183
cc) Exchange – reciprocity......Page 185
dd) Freedom, thanks to solidarity......Page 187
a) Economic absolutism – negated personhood......Page 189
aa) Looking for workforce......Page 190
bb) Slaves – a profitable commodity......Page 195
cc) Capitalism – deadly materialism......Page 197
dd) Slave society – philosophically justified violence......Page 199
ee) Slavery – a question of identity......Page 204
ff) From slavery to class-based injustice......Page 209
b) Constitutive and universal recognition, recognition of potential......Page 211
c) Recognition denial – fight for recognition......Page 217
a) Listen to others......Page 220
b) Homogeneity v. plurality......Page 221
aa) Assimilation......Page 222
bb) Core value absolutism......Page 224
cc) Cooperation – masterpiece plurality......Page 228
c) Manichaeism and collectivism......Page 230
4. Reciprocity......Page 235
a) Morality first......Page 236
b) Greed alone is not enough......Page 248
a) Functions of trust......Page 254
aa) Increase and reduction of complexity......Page 255
bb) Trust – doubts – distrust......Page 257
b) With trust to democracy......Page 258
aa) Justice and solidarity......Page 259
bb) Civil war......Page 261
cc) Francoism......Page 263
dd) The monarchical dictator......Page 264
ee) The trusted leader......Page 267
a) Monopoly of violence by consensus......Page 275
aa) Elementary consensus......Page 276
bb) Govern the rush......Page 280
cc) Solidarity, responsibility, reciprocity......Page 283
dd) The common good......Page 288
ee) Upper class violence......Page 292
ff) A culture of non-violence......Page 298
b) Interactive construction of the state – consented state power......Page 300
aa) Anarchy – valuable alternative......Page 301
bb) Institutions – interactions in reproduction phase, routine......Page 304
cc) State actors – commissioned and lent power......Page 307
c) Integration by law......Page 310
aa) Stabilizing the stabilized......Page 311
bb) Law-proposal......Page 313
cc) Interactive law-construction......Page 329
aa) France – a revolutionary monarchy, an elitist democracy......Page 341
bb) Switzerland – mitigating conflicts, concordance democracy......Page 348
7. People – Space......Page 352
a) Racist market......Page 354
aa) Human material......Page 355
bb) Making others to unite......Page 358
cc) Resistance......Page 360
dd) Apartheid......Page 362
ee) Revolution......Page 368
aa) Chinatown......Page 380
bb) Brooklyn and Harlem......Page 383
cc) Gated communities out of high inequality and distrust......Page 387
dd) Virtual “reality” – the other space......Page 392
a) Symbolic link......Page 396
aa) Versailles – unrivalled greatness......Page 397
bb) Cities – militarily effective, symbolically great......Page 400
cc) Washington – hoard of the scriptures......Page 403
dd) Northern Ireland – to whom belong the streets?......Page 410
b) Time concept – past, present, future......Page 416
aa) The past we need .........Page 418
bb) End the past, begin the future – forgiveness......Page 423
cc) Change......Page 426
dd) Responsible for the future, solidary with the next generations......Page 428
a) Approval of the core elements......Page 430
b) Integration is more than democracy or politics......Page 435
c) Greatness thanks to cooperation......Page 437
d) Cooperation instead of confrontation......Page 440
Acknowledgments......Page 444
References......Page 446
Index......Page 496
About the author......Page 506