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Zusatztext Filling an important gap in the literature, Serene J. Khader's first book deftly tackles a topic of growing importance as questions of individual human rights, agency and empowerment increasingly run up against questions of multiculturalism in development policy and pluralism in ethics ... this work makes an exhaustive analysis of a difficult and important problem, offering both practical and philosophical guidance for thinking about adaptive preferences. It is an important contribution to studies in which questions of multiculturalism and moral relativism complicate the search for answers. Khader's book also contributes to this discussion by reclaiming the dignity, empowerment, and sense of self-worth of individual women who exhibit inappropriately adaptive preferences, an important move in a discourse that ultimately seeks improvement of the human condition. Informationen zum Autor Serene Khader is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Wheaton College, in Massachusetts. She is also a women's rights activist who has worked in both national and international contests, and her activist experience informs her philosophical work. Klappentext Khader offers a deliberative perfectionist approach to identifying and responding to adaptive preferences - deprived people's preferences that perpetuate their deprivation. Zusammenfassung Khader offers a deliberative perfectionist approach to identifying and responding to adaptive preferences-- deprived people's preferences that perpetuate their deprivation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction Adaptive Preferences and Global Justice 1: A Deliberative Perfectionist Approach to Adaptive Preference Intervention 2: Adaptive Preferences and Choice: Are Adaptive Preferences Autonomy Deficits? 3: Adaptive Preferences and Agency: The Selective Effects of Adaptive Preferences 4: The Deliberative Perfectionist Approach, Paternalism, and Cultural Diversity 5: Reimagining Intervention: Adaptive Preferences and the Paradoxes of Empowerment ...
