Description
Who has what and why in our societies is a pressing issue that has prompted explanation and exposition by philosophers, politicians and jurists for as long as societies and intellectuals have existed. It is a primary issue for a society to tackle this and these answers have been diverse.
This collection of essays approaches some of these questions and answers to shed light on neglected approaches to issues of distribution and how these issues have been dealt with historically, socially, conceptually, and practically. The volume moves away from the more dominating and traditionally cast understandings of distributive justice and shows novel and unique ways to approach distributive issues and how these can help enlighten our course of action and thought today by creating new pathways of understanding. The editors and contributors challenge readers by exploring the role and importance of restorative justice within distributive justice, exploring the long shadow of practices of trusteeship, and concepts of social and individual rights and obligations in welfare and economic systems, social protection/provision schemes, egalitarian practices and post-colonial African political thought.
Distributive Justice Debates in Political and Social Thought empowers the reader to cast a more critical and historically complete light on the idea of a fair share and the implications it has on societies and the individuals who comprise them.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Preface: The Limits of Distributive Justice: A Brief Exploration of Restorative Justice David Boucher Introduction: Distributing Distributive Justice Camilla Boisen and Matthew C. Murray (editors) Part I - Historical Approaches to Distributive Justice Chapter 1: A Right to Welfare: Historical and Philosophical Reflections Samuel Fleischacker Chapter 2 – Luck Egalitarianism and the History of Political Thought Carl Knight Chapter 3 – Radical Distributive Justice: Fichte’s The Closed Commercial State David James Chapter 4 – Social Darwinism and Social Justice: Herbert Spencer and the Poor Matt Zwolinski Part II - Distributive Justice Reconsidered: Forging New Debates Chapter 5: Dignity, Sociability and Capability: Exploring Nussbaum’s Interpretation of Grotius Camilla Boisen and Matthew C. Murray Chapter 6: Care Ethics and Distributive Justice Daniel Engster Chapter 7: Justice and Real Politics: Freedom, Needs and Representation Lawrence Hamilton Chapter 8: Conservative Responses to Piketty’s "Unthinkable" Top Rate Income Tax Christopher Allsobrook Part III - New Horizons Beyond the West: African and Global Issues in Distributive Justice Chapter 9: An African Theory of Social Justice: Relationship as the Ground of Rights, Resources and Recognition Thaddeus Metz Chapter 10 – Social Protection & Justice: Poverty, Redistribution, and Dignity Marianne S. Ulriksen, Sophie Plagerson, and Tessa Hochfeld Chapter 11: Territory, Desert, and Global Distributive Justice Kim Angell Chapter 12: The Global Commons and International Distributive Justice Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch Conclusion: Finding a Fair Share Camilla Boisen and Matthew C. Murray (editors)
