Injustice

Political Theory for the Real World

Michael Goodhart (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-069243-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	28.07.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-19-069243-X / 019069243X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-069243-8 / 9780190692438
Zustand	Neuware