Paradigms of Justice

Denise Celentano is Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics and Economics at the Centre for Research on Ethics at the University of Montreal, Canada. She was previously a Berggruen Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at New York University, US. Her research explores problems of social justice and equality, with a focus on work as an issue of justice. Luigi Caranti is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universita di Catania, Italy. He has worked as a researcher in various institutions including the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, US, the Australian National University, and the Philipps-Universitt Marburg, Germany. His studies mainly concern the philosophy of Kant and he has contributed extensively to the theoretical, practical, aesthetic, and political dimensions of Kants thought. Currently, his research focuses on the philosophical theory of human rights.

Introduction PART I The recognition side of distributive justice 1. Basic income in the recognition order: respect, care, and esteem 2. Freedom, recognition, and the property-owning democracy: towards a predistributive model of justice 3. Redistribution, misrecognition, domination: a look at Brazilian society PART II Dimensions of equality 4. Redistribution and recognition from the point of view of real equality: Anderson and Honneth through the lens of Babeuf 5. Work justice beyond redistribution and recognition 6. Affective equality and social justice PART III Rethinking grammars of oppression and inclusion 7. Vulnerable political life: distributive justice, critical theory, and critical care ethics 8. Redistribution, recognition, and pluralism: a Rawlsian criticism of Fraser 9. The politics of white misrecognition and practices of racial inequality PART IV Moral economies of respect and esteem 10. A moral economy? Honneth, recognition, and the capitalist market 11. Social esteem between recognition and redistribution 12. Recognition vs redistribution: the case of self-respect