| Description |
viii, 286 pages ; 25 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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| Series |
Princeton paperbacks |
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Princeton paperbacks.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index. |
| Contents |
Displacing the distributive paradigm --- Five faces of oppression --- Insurgency and the welfare capitalist society --- The idea of impartiality and the civic public --- The scaling of bodies and the politics of identity --- Social movements and the politics of difference --- Affirmative action and the myth of merit --- City life and difference ---- Epilogue: International justice. |
| Summary |
"This book challenges the prevailing philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. Starting from claims of excluded groups about decision making, cultural expression, and division of labor, Iris Young defines concepts of domination and oppression to cover issues eluding the distributive model. Democratic theorists, according to Young do not adequately address the problem of an inclusive participatory framework. By assuming a homogeneous public, they fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms of reason and respectability. Young urges that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group difference. Basing her vision of the good society on the differentiated, culturally plural network of contemporary urban life, she argues for a principle of group representation in democratic publics and for group-differentiated policies"--Back cover. |
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Social justice.
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Oppression (Psychology)
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Cultural pluralism.
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Political participation.
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Social institutions.
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Politics, Practical.
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Pluralism.
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Cultural pluralism. (OCoLC)fst01715991
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Oppression (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01046613
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Political participation. (OCoLC)fst01069386
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Social institutions. (OCoLC)fst01122537
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Social justice. (OCoLC)fst01122603
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| ISBN |
0691078327 (alk. paper) |
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9780691078328 (alk. paper) |
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0691023158 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780691023151 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780691023151 |
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