Constitutive Justice [electronic resource] /
Barbieri, William A.author.
Both classical and modern accounts of justice largely overlook the question of how the communities within which justice applies are constituted in the first place. This book addresses that problem, arguing that we need to accord a place to the theory of 'constitutive justice' alongside traditional categories of distributive and commutative justice.
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Cover  ; Half-Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; Introduction: What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and Everybody Came?                                                                                    ; The structure of the book                                ; 1 The Scope and Scale of Justice                                       ; Justice and its types                            ; The limits of justice: Aristotle                                       ; Scope and scale
On the relationship between the scope and scale of justice                                                                 Constitutive debates                           ; Constitutive justice: why now?                                     ; 2 Reservations about Constitutive Justice                                                ; The contingency objection                                ; Excursus: historical justice                                   ; The political objection
The global distributive justice objection                                                The commutative justice objection                                        ; 3 Constitutive Justice - A Paradox?                                          ; Constitutive paradoxes I: founding                                         ; The paradox of civic virtue                                  ; The paradox of precommitment                                   ; The paradox of revolutionary authority                                             ; The demos paradox
The constitutional paradox                                 Constitutive paradoxes II: revisions                                           ; The semiotic paradox of peoplehood                                         ; The democratic paradox                             ; The paradox of democratic justification                                              ; The paradox of legal interpretation                                          ; The political paradox
4 Justice between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism                                                             Spheres of justice                         ; Membership                 ; Between people and cosmopolis                                    ; The cosmopolitan imaginary                                 ; 5 Four Transcommunal Approaches                                      ; Interdependence and the "Circumstances of Justice": Hume, O'Neill, Young
Recognition and the common good: Hegel, Ferrara, Tietz
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Both classical and modern accounts of justice largely overlook the question of how the communities within which justice applies are constituted in the first place. This book addresses that problem, arguing that we need to accord a place to the theory of 'constitutive justice' alongside traditional categories of distributive and commutative justice.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
World politics.
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