Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms : A Theory of Enlightened Localism (Suny series in Radical Social and Political Theory)

Gregg, Benjamin

State University of New York Press（2003/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 220 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791457818
• DDC分類 303.372

Full Description

Argues that social equity and legal justice are possible even in the absence of universal political norms.

Are social equity, political fairness, and legal justice possible within a liberal political order, even if norms are indeterminate? The modern world is distinguished by both its complexity and the absence of a single theory, principle, or tradition with the authority to constrain us. Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms demonstrates that while moral validity is relative rather than absolute, and cultural meanings local rather than universal, social integration and democratic politics are still attainable goals. Benjamin Gregg fashions a theory that combines proceduralism with pragmatism-an "enlightened localism"-that adjudicates among competing normative commitments and interpretations using local criteria in the absence of universal standards. The theory is applied to three empirical domains: social criticism, public policy, and law and morality.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction


I: THE PROBLEM: INDETERMINATE NORMS


1. Indeterminacy in Social and Political Norms


II: THE SOLUTION: BASIC COMPONENTS


2. Coping with Indeterminacy through Proceduralism


3. Coping with Indeterminacy through Pragmatism


III: THE SOLUTION: LOCALISM WITHOUT PAROCHIALISM


4. Enlightened Localism in Social Critique


5. Enlightened Localism in Public Policy


6. Enlightened Localism in Law and Morality

Coda: Social Cooperation in the Absence of Political Unity

Notes


Bibliography

Index