Spheres of Global Justice by Jean-Christophe Merle

Author:Jean-Christophe Merle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

31.2 The Tensions Inherent to the Republican Model of Citizenship

Although brief, this reconstruction of the main symbolic features of the French model of citizenship and common belonging allows us to point out some logical tensions inherent to it. It will be suggested that there is a tension at the heart of this model as it is informed by laïcité. The core of these tensions resides between the universalism expressed at the anthropological level and the particularism of the symbolic content at the institutional level. In particular, tensions are raised between the almost unlimited ontological power of self-determination that characterizes the self and, given the pervasiveness of laïcité, the narrowness of repertoires of action that individuals must endorse when acting as citizens. It is therefore the normative level of the model that is taken between paradoxical forces. In particular, two tensions will be discussed because of their relevance for citizenship both as a category of identity and of practice. I will call them the communitarian paradox and the democratic paradox.

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