Europe as a political society: Emile Durkheim, the federalist principle and the ideal of a cosmopolitan justice

A Stereoscopic Approach to Distinctions of Justice

“…The second sense relates to various faces of justice, to discernible conceptions or aspects of it. 10 In other words, it refers to adjectival specifications of justice (e.g., social, environmental, transitional, global, reparative, epistemic, etc).…”

“…Through adjectival specifications which make distinctions of justice and subjects/agents entitled to it visible, theory and research examine: cosmopolitan justice (see, e.g., Callegaro, and Marcucci [10]); multicultural justice (concerning rights of cultural groups); retributive justice (regarding punishment or blame); distributive justice (reshuffling of material sources on grounds of social priorities, individual need or desert); discursive justice (P. 43) [11]; transnational justice (P. 301) [12]; comparative and noncomparative justice 29 ; reparative justice (P. 208) [13]; meta-political justice and reflexive justice [14]; military justice [15]; epistemic justice (P. 154) [16]; 30 and transitional justice (P. 492) [17] 31 -just to name a few indicatively.…”

The Gift of The Nation

“…This is a precondition for any political stance towards the possible and desirable future of nations (Chernilo 2007). It remains, then, to show that questioning nationalism has been, for classical sociologists, the political consequence of a more fundamental theoretical and empirical revision regarding the nation itself, based on the perspective opened by a universal category: the fundamental concept of political society as understood as a primary dimension of human experience, as irreducible to the modern nation, and as able to support, for the latter reason, the comparative work of anthropology and history (Callegaro and Marcucci 2018).…”