Justice Is an Option - A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century

"In Justice as an Option, Robert Meister returns to the spirit of Marx to diagnose our current age of finance. Instead of closing our eyes to the political economic realities of our era and dreaming of a return to a more equitable time, we need to grapple with them head on. Meister does just that, asking if the very tools of finance that have created our vastly unequal world can be made to serve justice and equality. Boldly disproving the perceived inaccessibility of contemporary capitalism as a target of collective action, Meister formulates a democratic financial theory for the twenty-first century. Ranging between political philosophy, Marxism, and contemporary politics, Justice as an Option is an invigorating first page of a new-and sorely needed-leftist playbook"--

About the author

Robert Meister is professor of social and political thought in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz, where he directs the Bruce Initiative on Rethinking Capitalism. He is the author of Political Identity: Thinking Through Marx and After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Meister, Meister Robert
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780226702889
• ISBN: 978-0-226-70288-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, Economic theory and philosophy