Enduring Injustice

Informationen zum Autor Jeff Spinner-Halev is the Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in the Liberal State (1994) and Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship (2000) and co-editor of Minorities within Minorities: Equality, Right and Diversity (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Klappentext Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today. Zusammenfassung How should we deal with past injustices? Some call for apologies and reparations while others stress the needs of victims of injustice today. Spinner-Halev argues that some peoples face injustices from the past which cause injustice today! and that understanding enduring injustices can help us find ways to overcome them. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Radical injustice; 2. Which injustices? What groups?; 3. Enduring injustice; 4. Apology and acknowledgement; 5. Legitimacy and the cast of history; 6. Elusive justice; 7. A chastened liberalism.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Spinner-Halev, Jeff (University of North Carolina Spinner-Halev
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107017511
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01751-1
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education