Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought: Perspectives on Finding a Fair Share

ISBN-13: 9781138829763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 264 str.

Camilla Boisen; Matthew C. Murray

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Who has what and why in our societies is a pressing issue that has prompted explanation and exposition by philosophers, politicians and jurists for as long as societies and intellectuals have existed. It is a primary issue for a society to tackle this and these answers have been diverse. This collection of essays approaches some of these questions and answers to shed light on neglected approaches to issues of distribution and how these issues have been dealt with historically, socially, conceptually, and practically. The volume moves away from the more dominating and traditionally cast understandings of distributive justice and shows novel and unique ways to approach distributive issues and how these can help enlighten our course of action and thought today by creating new pathways of understanding. The editors and contributors challenge readers by exploring the role and importance of restorative justice within distributive justice, exploring the long shadow of practices of trusteeship, and concepts of social and individual rights and obligations in welfare and economic systems, social protection/provision schemes, egalitarian practices and post-colonial African political thought. Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought 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.

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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)