Equality Renewed - Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal

How should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of equality? In this book, Christine Sypnowich proposes a theory of equality centred on human flourishing, living well, or wellbeing.

List of contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Challenges to Equality
Chapter 1: Beyond DifferenceChapter 2: Race, Culture and the Egalitarian Conscience
Chapter 3: Androgyny and Girl Power, Sex, Equality and Human Goods
Part II: Liberal Revisionism
Chapter 4: Impartiality, Difference and Wellbeing
Chapter 5: Equality and the Antinomies of Multicultural Liberalism
Part III: Equality and Living WellChapter 6: What Equality Is and Is Not
Chapter 7: Human Flourishing and the Use and Abuse of Equality
Chapter 8: Autonomy and Living Well
Chapter 9: Equality and the Public Good: Global and Local
Chapter 10: Cosmopolitans, Cosmopolitanism and Human Flourishing
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Christine Sypnowich is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada. She is the author of The Concept of Socialist Law (Oxford, 1990), and editor (with David Bakhurst) of The Social Self (Sage, 1995), and The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G.A. Cohen (Oxford, 2006). Her work has appeared in such journals as Political Theory, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, New Left Review and Politics and Society.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Sypnowich, Christine (Queens University Sypnowich, Sypnowich Christine
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138208810
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20881-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory; Routledge Innovations in Polit
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements