Injustice

Political Theory for the Real World
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-069243-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 507 g

This book challenges the conventional approach to problems of injustice in global normative theory. It offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and to show how political theorists might do better in understanding and addressing it. Michael Goodhart argues that the dominant paradigm, ideal moral theory (IMT), takes a fundamentally wrong-headed approach to injustice. At the same time, leading alternatives to IMT struggle to make sense of the role values play in politics and abandon political theorys critical and prescriptive aspirations. Goodhart treats justice claims as ideological and develops an innovative bifocal theoretical framework for making sense of them. This framework reconciles realistic political analysis with substantive normative commitments, enabling theorists to come to grips with injustice as a political rather than a philosophical problem. The book describes the work that political theory and political theorists can do to combat injustice and illustrates its key arguments through a novel reconceptualization of responsibility for injustice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodhart, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents

- Acknowledgments

- Introduction

- Part I: Un-thinking Ideal Moral Theory

- Chapter 1: The Trouble with Justice

- Chapter 2: Barking up the Wrong Trees

- Part II: Re-conceptualizing the Problem

- Chapter 3: Getting Real?

- Chapter 4: The Bifocal Approach

- Chapter 5: A Democratic Account of Injustice

- Part III: Political Theory for the Real World

- Chapter 6: Political Theory and the Politics of Injustice

- Chapter 7: Taking Responsibility for Injustice

- Notes

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Goodhart is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he holds secondary appointments in Philosophy and in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. Goodhart's research focuses on problems of global injustice, on the theory and practice of democracy and human rights in the context of globalization, and on related puzzles concerning international and transnational democratic governance and accountability. He is also interested in epistemology and in methodology in political theory.