Recovering Solidarity: Lessons from Poland's Unfinished Revolution (CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT)
Book Details
Author(s)
Gerald J. Beyer
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN / ASIN
026802216X
ISBN-13
9780268022167
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#4,017,820
Category
History
Marketplace
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Description
In Recovering Solidarity, Gerald J. Beyer provides a contextualized theological and ethical treatment of the idea of solidarity. He focuses particularly on the Polish Solidarity movement of the 1980s and the ways in which that movement originally embodied but, during the country's transformation to a capitalist democratic society, soon abandoned this important aspect of the Catholic social tradition.
Using Poland as a case study, Beyer explores the obstacles to promoting an ethic of solidarity in contemporary capitalist societies and attempts to demonstrate how the moral revolution of the early Solidarity movement can be revived, both in its country of origin and around the world. Recovering Solidarity is widely interdisciplinary, utilizing Catholic social thought, philosophical ethics, developmental economics, poverty research, gender studies and sociology.Â
Using Poland as a case study, Beyer explores the obstacles to promoting an ethic of solidarity in contemporary capitalist societies and attempts to demonstrate how the moral revolution of the early Solidarity movement can be revived, both in its country of origin and around the world. Recovering Solidarity is widely interdisciplinary, utilizing Catholic social thought, philosophical ethics, developmental economics, poverty research, gender studies and sociology.Â
