New Perspectives on Distributive Justice : : Deep Disagreements, Pluralism, and the Problem of Consensus / / ed. by Manuel Knoll, Nurdane Şimsek, Stephen Snyder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bailey, Tom,; Caven, Peter,; Demir, Aysel,; Dimitrova, Maria,; Förster, Annette,; Gaus, Gerald,; Giorgini, Giovanni,; Haus, Michael,; Horn, Christoph,; Irrera, Elena,; Kallhoff, Angela,; Knoll, Manuel,; Koller, Peter,; Kukathas, Chandran,; Lim, Chong-Ming,; Lisi, Francisco L.,; Rupniewski, Michał,; Schoelandt, Chad Van,; Schütrumpf, Eckart,; Siani, Alberto L.,; Snyder, Stephen,; Spohn, Ulrike,; Steinvorth, Ulrich,; Stocker, Barry,; Tan, Kok-Chor,; Westphal, Manon,; Wolthuis, Bertjan,; Wringe, Bill,; Young, Jeffrey,; Şimşek, Nurdane,
• HerausgeberIn: Knoll, Manuel,; Snyder, Stephen,; Şimsek, Nurdane,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 563 p.)

Distributive justice is one of the most discussed topics in political philosophy. Focusing on the plurality of irreconcilable conceptions of social and political justice, this book presents an array of new perspectives on the topic. Bringing together 30 original essays of well-established and young international scholars, the volume is essential reading for anyone interested in social and political justice.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Two Opposing Conceptions of Distributive Justice -- Part I: Deep Disagreements -- Deep Disagreements on Social and Political Justice: Their Meta-Ethical Relevance and the Need for a New Research Perspective -- Are There Irreconcilable Conceptions of Justice? Critical Remarks on Isaiah Berlin -- Equality beyond Liberal Egalitarianism: Walzer’s Contribution to the Theory of Justice -- Stuart Hampshire and the Case for Procedural Justice -- Public Reason in Circumstances of Pluralism -- Does Rawls’s First Principle of Justice Allow for Consensus? A Note -- Part II: Ancient Perspectives and Critiques of the Centrality of Justice -- Aristotle on Natural Right -- What Is “Just in Distribution” in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Politics – Too Much Justice, Too Little Right -- Justice in Ethics and Political Philosophy: A Fundamental Critique -- Justicitis -- Part III: The Problem of Consensus -- Rawls on Overlapping Disagreement and the Problem of Reconciliation -- Public Reason, Compromise within Consensus, and Legitimacy -- From Consensus to Modus Vivendi? Pluralistic Approaches to the Challenge of Moral Diversity and Conflict -- What Bonds Citizens in a Pluralistic Democracy? Probing Mouffe’s Notion of a Conflictual Consensus -- Citizenship, Community, and the Rule of Law: With or Without Consensus? -- Political Liberalism: The Burdens of Judgement and Moral Psychology -- Part IV: Expanding the Perspective on Obligations -- John Rawls and Claims of Climate Justice: Tensions and Prospects -- Assistance, Emergency Relief and the Duty Not to Harm – Rawls’ and Cosmopolitan Approaches to Distributive Justice Combined -- Global Collective Obligations, Just International Institutions and Pluralism -- Intergenerational Justice in the Age of Genetic Manipulation -- Part V: Diversifying the Perspective -- The Contours of Toleration: A Relational Account -- Constructing Public Distributive Justice: On the Method of Functionalist Moral Theory -- Respect as an Object of Equal Distribution? Opacity, Individual Recognition and Second-Personal Authority -- Responsibility and Justice: Beyond Moral Egalitarianism and Rational Consensus -- Habermas’s and Rawls’s Postsecular Modesty -- Part VI: The Difference Principle -- A Defense of the Difference Principle beyond Rawls -- Marxist Critiques of the Difference Principle -- Part VII: The Economic Perspective: Adam Smith -- Justice, Equity, and Distribution: Adam Smith’s Answer to John Rawls’s Difference Principle -- Statism and Distributive Injustice in Adam Smith -- Notes on Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index