Michele Moody-Adams is Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University. She is the author of Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy (1997). Moody-Adams is a lifetime honorary fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Making Space for Justice is a timely work given our current political dangers, in which partisans lack a shared reality and cynics promote a nihilistic politics of despair that threatens democracy. This work manifests on every page the virtues and normative orientations for which Moody-Adams is arguing—hope, civic grace, an inclusive imagination, compassionate concern, and respect for all, including even those who are, out of despair and resentment, currently endangering democracy. It is a powerful contribution to the pragmatist tradition in philosophy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Understanding Social Movements1. What is A Social Movement?2. Social Movements and the Task of Democracy3. Social Movements and the Moral LifePart II: Social Movements and The Power of Collective Imagination4. Taking Imagination Seriously5. Language Matters6. Justice and the Narrative ImaginationPart III: Social Movements and Political Hope7. The Empire of Affect and The Challenge of Collective Hope8. Hope and HistoryNotesBibliographyIndex

Michele Moody-Adams is Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University. She is the author of Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophy (1997). Moody-Adams is a lifetime honorary fellow of Somerville College, Oxford, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Making Space for Justice is a timely work given our current political dangers, in which partisans lack a shared reality and cynics promote a nihilistic politics of despair that threatens democracy. This work manifests on every page the virtues and normative orientations for which Moody-Adams is arguing—hope, civic grace, an inclusive imagination, compassionate concern, and respect for all, including even those who are, out of despair and resentment, currently endangering democracy. It is a powerful contribution to the pragmatist tradition in philosophy.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Understanding Social Movements1. What is A Social Movement?2. Social Movements and the Task of Democracy3. Social Movements and the Moral LifePart II: Social Movements and The Power of Collective Imagination4. Taking Imagination Seriously5. Language Matters6. Justice and the Narrative ImaginationPart III: Social Movements and Political Hope7. The Empire of Affect and The Challenge of Collective Hope8. Hope and HistoryNotesBibliographyIndex