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 theory's 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.
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ISBN
9780190692452
Publisert
2020
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Vendor
Oxford University Press
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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