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This book empowers the reader to cast a more critical and historically complete light on the idea of a fair share and the implications it has on societies and the individuals who comprise them.
Table des matières
Table of Contents: Preface: The Limits of Distributive Justice: A Brief Exploration of Restorative Justice David Boucher Introduction: Distributing Distributive Justice Camilla Boisen and Matthew C. Murray (editors) Part I - Historical Approaches to Distributive Justice Chapter 1: A Right to Welfare: Historical and Philosophical Reflections Samuel Fleischacker Chapter 2 – Luck Egalitarianism and the History of Political Thought Carl Knight Chapter 3 – Radical Distributive Justice: Fichte’s The Closed Commercial State David James Chapter 4 – Social Darwinism and Social Justice: Herbert Spencer and the Poor Matt Zwolinski Part II - Distributive Justice Reconsidered: Forging New Debates Chapter 5: Dignity, Sociability and Capability: Exploring Nussbaum’s Interpretation of Grotius Camilla Boisen and Matthew C. Murray Chapter 6: Care Ethics and Distributive Justice Daniel Engster Chapter 7: Justice and Real Politics: Freedom, Needs and Representation Lawrence Hamilton Chapter 8: Conservative Responses to Piketty’s "Unthinkable" Top Rate Income Tax Christopher Allsobrook Part III - New Horizons Beyond the West: African and Global Issues in Distributive Justice Chapter 9: An African Theory of Social Justice: Relationship as the Ground of Rights, Resources and Recognition Thaddeus Metz Chapter 10 – Social Protection & Justice: Poverty, Redistribution, and Dignity Marianne S. Ulriksen, Sophie Plagerson, and Tessa Hochfeld Chapter 11: Territory, Desert, and Global Distributive Justice Kim Angell Chapter 12: The Global Commons and International Distributive Justice Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch Conclusion: Finding a Fair Share Camilla Boisen and Matthew C. Murray (editors)
A propos de l'auteur
Camilla Boisen is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Theory at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her area of research is on colonial political thought in relation to the development of ideas of property rights, trusteeship and humanitarian intervention and their influence on contemporary problems such as post-colonial restitution.
Matthew C. Murray is the Senior Project Advisor for the Growthpolicy.org project at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and serves as Special Lecturer of Philosophy at Providence College. Matthew is actively researching and publishing in the areas of critical theories of justice (subaltern, race, culture, gender and disability) and their effects on the ideas of and applications of distributive and social justice.
Résumé
This book empowers the reader to cast a more critical and historically complete light on the idea of a fair share and the implications it has on societies and the individuals who comprise them.
