One for All : The Logic of Group Conflict.
Title:
One for All : The Logic of Group Conflict.
Author:
Hardin, Russell.
ISBN:
9781400821693
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (303 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE: Individuals and Groups -- Extraordinary Action -- Collective Action -- Identity and Identification -- Whose Choices, Whose Theory? -- Multiplicity of Motivations -- Commonsense Epistemology -- Philosophical Miscellany -- An Overview of the Book -- CHAPTER TWO: Group Power -- The Structures of Social Interaction -- Coordination and Power -- Exchange -- Confusions between Coordination and Exchange -- The Normative Question -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE: Group Identification -- Self-Interest -- Group Identification from Coordination -- Information through Coordination -- Conflict from Group Coordination -- The Is-Ought Fallacy -- Irreducibly Social Goods -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER FOUR: Norms of Exclusion -- Norms of Difference and Universalistic Norms -- Explaining Norms of Exclusion -- The Duel -- The Epistemology of Norms -- The Enforcement of Norms -- Stability and Fragility of Norms -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER FIVE: Universalistic Norms -- Norms and Interest -- Are Norms Outcome-Oriented? -- Strong Universalistic Norms -- The Morality of Norms -- Norms beyond Interest -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER SIX: Violent Conflicts -- From Conflict to Violence -- Ethnic Hatred -- Group Identification and War -- Territorial Considerations -- Contemporary Cases of Violent Conflict -- Moral Responsibility for Contemporary Violence -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Einstein's Dictum and Communitarianism -- Portia's Justice -- Communitarian Strands -- Epistemological Communitarianism -- From Knowledge to Good -- Communal Good -- The Moshiach of Crown Heights -- Future Generations -- Respect for Cultures -- Communitarian Consent or Agreement -- The Rationality of Communitarian Commitment -- Concluding Remarks -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Whither Difference? -- Kafka's Failure at Marriage -- Pluralism.
Universalism -- Destruction and Construction -- Resolutions of Contemporary Violence -- The Future of Ethnic Nationalism -- Farewell to Community? -- Final Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
In a book that challenges the most widely held ideas of why individuals engage in collective conflict, Russell Hardin offers a timely, crucial explanation of group action in its most destructive forms. Contrary to those observers who attribute group violence to irrationality, primordial instinct, or complex psychology, Hardin uncovers a systematic exploitation of self-interest in the underpinnings of group identification and collective violence. Using examples from Mafia vendettas to ethnic violence in places such as Bosnia and Rwanda, he describes the social and economic circumstances that set this violence into motion. Hardin explains why hatred alone does not necessarily start wars but how leaders cultivate it to mobilize their people. He also reveals the thinking behind the preemptive strikes that contribute to much of the violence between groups, identifies the dangers of "particularist" communitarianism, and argues for government structures to prevent any ethnic or other group from having too much sway. Exploring conflict between groups such as Serbs and Croats, Hutu and Tutsi, Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants, Hardin vividly illustrates the danger that arises when individual and group interests merge. In these examples, groups of people have been governed by movements that managed to reflect their members' personal interests--mainly by striving for political and economic advances at the expense of other groups and by closing themselves off from society at large. The author concludes that we make a better and safer world if we design our social institutions to facilitate individual efforts to achieve personal goals than if we concentrate on the ethnic political makeup of our respective societies.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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