Provisional politics
Subtitle: Kantian arguments in policy context
By: Elisabeth Ellis.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780300125221
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, -- 1724-1804 -- Political and social views; Political science -- Philosophy
Description: "Written in a direct style, Provisional Politics builds on Elizabeth Ellis's prize-winning interpretation of Kant's theory of provisional right to construct a new theory of justice under conditions of agency and plurality. She develops this new perspective through a series of cases ranging from the treatment of AIDS widows in Kenya to the rights of noncitizens everywhere, as well as the clash between democratic decision-making and the politics of species conservation. The book concludes with a sobering discussion of the probable limits of political agency."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to provisional theory; title: Provisionalism and democratic theory; title: Provisionality and property; title: Citizenship and provisional right; title: Provisional and conclusive environmental politics; title: Conclusions.