Injustice

Political Theory for the Real World

AvMichael Goodhart

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book challenges the conventional approach to problems of injustice in global normative theory. It offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and to show how political theorists might do better in understanding and addressing it. Michael Goodhart argues that the dominant paradigm, ideal moral theory (IMT), takes a fundamentally wrong-headed approach to injustice. At the same time, leading alternatives to IMT struggle to make sense of the role values play in politics and abandon political theorys critical and prescriptive aspirations. Goodhart treats justice claims as ideological and develops an innovative bifocal theoretical framework for making sense of them. This framework reconciles realistic political analysis with substantive normative commitments, enabling theorists to come to grips with injustice as a political rather than a philosophical problem. The book describes the work that political theory and political theorists can do to combat injustice and illustrates its key arguments through a novel reconceptualization of responsibility for injustice.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-06-07
Mått:231 x 155 x 17 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190692438

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Michael Goodhart is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he holds secondary appointments in Philosophy and in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. Goodhart's research focuses on problems of global injustice, on the theory and practice of democracy and human rights in the context of globalization, and on related puzzles concerning international and transnational democratic governance and accountability. He is also interested in epistemology and in methodology in political theory.

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Any reflection about practice calls for its translation in another practice, not rarely challenging the practice reflected upon. This book will, therefore, appeal to more than just global normative theorists, but inspire all those who have a dynamic interest in the ethos of today's world.

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Un-thinking Ideal Moral TheoryChapter 1: The Trouble with Justice Chapter 2: Barking up the Wrong Trees Part II: Re-conceptualizing the Problem Chapter 3: Getting Real? Chapter 4: The Bifocal Approach Chapter 5: A Democratic Account of Injustice Part III: Political Theory for the Real WorldChapter 6: Political Theory and the Politics of Injustice Chapter 7: Taking Responsibility for Injustice Notes Bibliography Index