Social Solidarity in Adorno, Habermas and Rorty

Agents, Spectators, and Social Hope. Richard Rorty and American Intellectuals

Rorty wrote his Achieving Our Country as a philosopher, intellectual, academic and citizen, and each of these perspectives leads to a different emphasis in reading his book, and to a different story (and ‘storytelling’ is one of the themes of the book). The emergent pictures vary: the philosopher tells a story of the growing isolation and cultural sterility of analytic philosophy in the United ...

Solidarity and Rapport in Social Interaction

This chapter examines the way online language users enhance social interaction and group collaboration through the computer mediated communication (CMC) channel. For this, discourse analysis based on the linguistic politeness theoretical framework is applied to the transcripts of a real time online chat. Analysis of the data shows that online participants employ a variety of creative devices to...

Rorty and His Critics

Integration and Multiculturalism: Ways towards Social Solidarity

Intergenerational Solidarity: Strengthening Economic and Social Ties

Preface Never before have we witnessed a " silent revolution " of such significance for all sectors of society as the global phenomenon of population aging, which has a direct bearing on the meaning of generations, cohorts and intergenerational solidarity. Two key elements of this transformation stand out. First, there is a new architecture of society that entails social change, which challenge...