Equal Society - Essays on Equality in Theory and Practice

The Equal Society collects fourteen new scholarly essays by established and emerging researchers, addressing political, legal, and ethical aspects of equality, and providing fresh perspectives on topics such as relational equality, epistemic injustice, the capabilities approach, African ethics, gender equality, and philosophy of race.

List of contents

Introduction
George Hull

PART ONE: THEORETICAL EXPANSIONS AND REVISIONS

1 Social Equality, Relative Poverty and Marginalised Groups
Jonathan Wolff

2 Racial Equality
Charles W. Mills

3 Epistemic Contribution as a Central Human Capability
Miranda Fricker

4 Equality of Intelligibility
Daniel Putnam

5 Capability Luck Egalitarianism
Bekka Williams

6 From Well-faring to Well-being: Prospects for a Metric of Liberal Egalitarian Justice
George Hull

7 Hierarchy and Social Respect: Friends or Enemies?
Tom P. S. Angier

8 Equality of Freedom
Lucy Allais

9 An African Egalitarianism: Bringing Community to Bear on Equality
Thaddeus Metz

PART TWO: PUTTING EQUALITY INTO PRACTICE

10 Equality, Liberty and Modern Constitutionalism
David Bilchitz

11 Forward-looking Equalization: Can It Subsume Historical Redress Claims?
Daryl Glaser

12 What Is Equality in Higher Education?
Ann E. Cudd

13 Does the Gendered Division of Labor Undermine Citizenship?
Gina Schouten

14 Social Equality and Economic Institutions: Arguing for Workplace Democracy
Pierre-Yves Néron

About the Contributors

About the author

George Hull is lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cape Town.

Summary

The Equal Society collects fourteen new scholarly essays by established and emerging researchers, addressing political, legal, and ethical aspects of equality, and providing fresh perspectives on topics such as relational equality, epistemic injustice, the capabilities approach, African ethics, gender equality, and philosophy of race.

Product details

• Authors: Hull, George Hull
• Assisted by: George Hull (Editor), Hull George (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498515733
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1573-3
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Essays, English, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literary essays