Perspectives on Social Justice: From Hume to Walzer / Edition 1

by David Boucher, Paul Kelly

Overview

This volume brings together leading theorists to discuss the latest thinking on social justice - a central concern of contemporary politics and political philosophy. Contributors such as Carole Pateman, Raymond Plant and Chris Brown explore:
* the origins of the concept
* the contributions of thinkers such as Hume, Kant and Mill
* issues such as international justice, economic justice, justice and the environment and special rights.
By bringing together the latest applications of theories of justice with a discussion of origins, Perspectives on Social Justice provides a helpful overview for students and specialists alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415149976
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/25/1998
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Boucher, Paul Kelly

Table of Contents

1: Introduction; 2: David Hume, contractarian 1; 3: Mill on justice; 4: Pareto and the critique of justice; 5: British Idealism and the just society; 6: International social justice; 7: Is environmental justice a misnomer?; 8: Democracy, rights and distributive economic justice; 9: Justice in the community; 10: Contractarian social justice; 11: Racial equality; 12: Democracy, freedom and special rights 1; 13: Beyond social justice and social democracy; 14: Social justice in theory and practice; 15: Why social justice?

Editorial Reviews

"In sum, readers of this volume will encoutner a fair number of interesting ideas, belonging to different parts of the hisotrical and political spectrum, accompanied by numerous references to more substanial works.--Eugene Schlossberger, Purdue University."
"With this work Boucher and Kelly have provided a pedagogically useful guide to liberalism's continuing engagement with questions of social justice. "Social Justice successfully shows the vigor of alternative traditions while at the same time avoids underplaying the differences within the liberal tradition itself, neither reducing the tradition to simply the banal orthodoxy of rational choice theory nor to Rawlsian contractarian justifications of distributive justice.."
-Matthew R. Hachee, Michigan State University

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