Regarding Equality
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Textbook Binding
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780739101551
Subjects: Political science & theory; Social & political philosophy; Social theory; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Philosophy; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political; Philosophy / Political; Liberty; Citizenship; Equality; Pluralism (Social sciences)
Description: "Regarding Equality offers an innovative and controversial analysis of the relationship between equality and pluralism. Tackling an issue central to modern political thought, Freeberg highlights the struggle to characterize citizens as equals while respecting their moral, religious, and cultural diversity.

The work ably contrasts and critiques the prevailing models for balancing equality with pluralism from thinkers Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls, Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson, Michael Oakeshott, and Drucilla Cornell. From these liberal, democratic, and conservative approaches to equality and pluralism, Freeberg builds a theory of responsive regard: reciprocal civility between citizens that forms a chastened conception of what we share as free and equal persons.

This work will greatly add to political theorists' and philosophers' arsenals of concepts for egalitarian and democratic theory."--BOOK JACKET.