Introduction: Addressing the politics of fear. The challenge posed by pluralism to Europe

Philosophy and Social Criticism

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 371-382

  Bosetti, Giancarlo ^a  

^a Reset Dialogues on Civilizations   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Europe; Fear; Islam; Openness; Pluralism; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957945692     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: 1461734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0191453711400998     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. A. Ferrara, V. Kaul and D. Rasmussen (eds) 'Postsecularism and Multicultural Jurisdictions: Reset Dialogues İstanbul Seminars 2008-2009', Philosophy & Social Criticism 36(3-4) (March-May 2010).
2. with contributions by Nina zu Fürstenberg, Volker Kaul, Nasr Abu Zayd, Abdelmajid Charfi, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Nader Hashemi, David M. Rasmussen, Alessandro Ferrara, Carlos Thiebaut, Richard J. Bernstein, Ayelet Shachar, Massimo Rosati, Maeve Cooke, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Seyla Benhabib, Andrew Arato and Ayşe Kadioǧlu.
3. Realigning Liberalism: Pluralism, Integration, Identities', İstanbul Bilgi University, 19-24 May 2010.
4. To the seminars contributed: Irfan Ahmad, Cengiz Aktar, Sadik Al Azm, Gil Anidjar, Yeşim Arat, Albena Azmanova, Zygmunt Bauman, Seyla Benhabib Murat Borovali, Giovanna Borradori, Giancarlo Bosetti, Emrah Efe Çakmak, Aysen Candas, Robin Celikates, Maeve Cooke, Fred Dallmayr, Alessandro Ferrara, Abdou Filali-Ansary, Nina zu Fürstenberg, Nilüfer Göle, Stefan Gosepath, Halil Güven, Barbara Henry, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Ibrahim Kalin, Volker Kaul, Ferda Keskin, Matthias Kettner, Fuat Keyman, Dilek Kurban, Stephen J. Macedo, Sebastiano Maffettone, Susanna Mancini, Dina Mansour, Francesco Margiotta Broglio, Soli Özel, Umut Ozkirimli, David Ragazzoni, David Rasmussen, Massimo Rosati, Ulrich Steinvorth, Alfred Stepan, Simonetta Tabboni, Roberto Toscano, Alain Touraine and Yirmiyahu Yovel.
5. Obama's speeches in Ankara on 6 April 2009 and in Cairo on 4 June of the same year.
6. Silvio Berlusconi, 'Sì ai rimpatri, non apriremo le porte a tutti', La Repubblica, 9 May 2009.
7. As Anthony Giddens so effectively suggested in 'Eight Theses to the Future of Europe', in his Europe in the Global Age (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007), ch. 7, pp. 231 ff.
8. Managing the Welfare Impacts of Migration in Times of Economic Turbulence (London: Policy Network, seminar report, 1 December 2009).
9. See also the paper by Montserrat Guibernau, 'Migration and the Rise of the Radical Right' (London: Policy Network, March 2010).
10. Matthew J. Goodwin, 'The Contemporary Radical Right: Past, Present and Future', Political Studies Review 7 (2009): 322-9 (327); quoted by Montserrat Guibernau.
11. See Nilüfer Göle's article in this issue and also her paper 'Politics of Islamic Praying in European Publics' on the website of Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations (www.resetdoc.org), available at: http://www.resetdoc.org/story/00000021408
12. With the French term laicité, I want to denote a conception and an institutional set of rules firmly committed to excluding religious reasons from entering the public sphere. The same concept could be described by the term 'laicism', more frequent in German as Laizismus and in Italian as laicismo.
13. About postsecularism and the vast work of Jürgen Habermas in recent years.
14. see in particular Discoursing the Post-Secular. Essays on the Habermasian Post-Secular Turn, ed. Péter Losonczi and Aakash Singh (Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2010).
15. See also, in Italian, my Il fallimento dei laici furiosi (Milan: Rizzoli, 2009).
16. and Giuliano Amato and Vincenzo Paglia, Dialoghi postsecolari, I libri di Reset (Venice: Marsilio, 2006).
17. Quote from Michael Walzer, 'Drawing the Line: Religion and Politics', in his Thinking Politically (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), ch. 10, pp. 143-67.
18. ibid., pp. 96-106.
19. See among others Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, State, Society, and Liberty: Studies in Political Theory and Constitutional Law (New York: Berg, 1991).
20. See the already mentioned issue of Philosophy&Social Criticism 36(3-4) (March-May 2010).
21. The argument was suggested to me by Elisabetta Galeotti in her research about the conditions of the respect due to persons with different identities in a free and pluralistic society.
22. See her 'Respect as Recognition', in Michael Seymour (ed.) The Plural States of Recognition (London: Palgrave, 2010), pp. 78-97 (p. 92).
23. Jürgen Habermas, 'The Public Voice of Religion - the Secular State and the Plurality of Faiths', speech given in Rome, Teatro Eliseo, 14 September 2007 at a meeting of Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations. We can find the same argument in his 'Die öffentliche Stimme der Religion. Säkularer Staat und Glaubenspluralismus', Blätter fü r deutsche und internationale Politik (December 2007): 1441-6.
24. He died on 5 July 2010.