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- Puts the development of social paradigms into historical and ideological context on the way to developing a new perspective through which to consider contemporary institutions
- Challenges well-established assumptions about how best to organize a just and effective society in a critical and systematic way
- Uniquely links the concept of social order to more general concepts developed in the fields of ethics, social philosophy, philosophy of knowledge, and law
Part of the book series: Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law (PPPTL)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
No social life is possible without order. Order being the most constituent element of society, it is not surprising that so many theories have been developed to explain what social order is and how it is possible, as well as to explore the features that social order acquires in its different dimensions. The book leads these many theories of social order back to a few main matrices for the use of theoretical and practical reason, which are defined as 'paradigms of order'. The plurality of conceptual constructs regarding social order is therefore reduced to a manageable number of theoretical patterns and an intellectual map is produced in which the most significant differences between paradigms are clearly outlined. Furthermore, the 'paradigmatic revolutions' are addressed that marked the most relevant turning points in the way in which a 'well-ordered society' should be understood. Against this background, the question is discussed on the theoretical and practical perspectives for a cosmopolitan society as the only suitable possibility to meet the global challenges with which we are all presently confronted.
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Authors and Affiliations
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University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Sergio Dellavalle
About the author
Sergio Dellavalle is Professor of Public Law and State Theory at the University of Turin, Italy, and Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Constitutional Law and International Law, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paradigms of Social Order
Book Subtitle: From Holism to Pluralism and Beyond
Authors: Sergio Dellavalle
Series Title: Philosophy, Public Policy, and Transnational Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66179-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66178-6Published: 26 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66181-6Published: 26 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66179-3Published: 25 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2371
Series E-ISSN: 2946-238X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 461
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Public International Law , Philosophy of Law