Difference Without Domination

Author : Danielle Allen,Rohini Somanathan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226681368

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Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma head-on, exploring new ways to combat current social hierarchies of domination. Using examples from the United States, India, Germany, and Cameroon, the contributors offer paradigm-changing approaches to the concepts of justice, identity, and social groups while also taking a fresh look at the idea that the demographic make-up of institutions should mirror the make-up of a populace as a whole. After laying out the conceptual framework, the volume turns to a number of provocative topics, among them the pernicious tenacity of implicit bias, the logical contradictions inherent to the idea of universal human dignity, and the paradoxes and problems surrounding affirmative action. A stimulating blend of empirical and interpretive analyses, Difference without Domination urges us to reconsider the idea of representation and to challenge what it means to measure equality and inequality.

Author : Danielle Allen,Rohini Somanathan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226681221

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Difference without Domination by Danielle Allen,Rohini Somanathan Pdf

Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma head-on, exploring new ways to combat current social hierarchies of domination. Using examples from the United States, India, Germany, and Cameroon, the contributors offer paradigm-changing approaches to the concepts of justice, identity, and social groups while also taking a fresh look at the idea that the demographic make-up of institutions should mirror the make-up of a populace as a whole. After laying out the conceptual framework, the volume turns to a number of provocative topics, among them the pernicious tenacity of implicit bias, the logical contradictions inherent to the idea of universal human dignity, and the paradoxes and problems surrounding affirmative action. A stimulating blend of empirical and interpretive analyses, Difference without Domination urges us to reconsider the idea of representation and to challenge what it means to measure equality and inequality.

Author : Samuel Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317103875

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Living Without Domination by Samuel Clark Pdf

Living Without Domination defends the bold claim that humans can organise themselves to live peacefully and prosperously together in an anarchist utopia. Clark refutes errors about what anarchism is, about utopianism, and about human sociability and its history. He then develops an analysis of natural human social activity which places anarchy in the real landscape of sociability, along with more familiar possibilities including states and slavery. The book is distinctive in bringing the rigour of analytic political philosophy to anarchism, which is all too often dismissed out of hand or skated over in popular history.

Author : Danielle Allen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226777092

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Justice by Means of Democracy by Danielle Allen Pdf

"Danielle Allen revisits Rawls' landmark A Theory of Justice to make the case that justice, which she defines as the necessary conditions for human flourishing, requires the protection of political equality or the ability of all people who wish to participate in the political process, to do so on an equal footing. She argues that Rawls, and other thinkers in his wake who focused on protection of individuals from intrusion of the state, as well as many economists with their focus on utilitarian approaches to public policy, have neglected political equality which has led to the denial of justice to many in our society. At a time when economic and political inequality have increased dramatically, and political inequality is threatened by efforts to limit the ability of many to engage in the most basic political right, voting, this book could not be timelier. This book builds on Allen's Berlin Lectures on COVID that we just published in arguing that policymaking fails when it excludes whole communities from participation in the political process. This manuscript is based on the Berlin Lectures that Allen originally intended to deliver in 2020. Allen substituted the lectures on policymaking for COVID given the urgency of the pandemic"--

Author : Ranajit Guha
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 067421482X

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Dominance Without Hegemony by Ranajit Guha Pdf

What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? Ranajit Guha points out that the colonial state in South Asia was fundamentally different from the metropolitan bourgeois state which sired it. The metropolitan state was hegemonic in character, and its claim to dominance was based on a power relation in which persuasion outweighed coercion. Conversely, the colonial state was non-hegemonic, and in its structure of dominance coercion was paramount. Indeed, the originality of the South Asian colonial state lay precisely in this difference: a historical paradox, it was an autocracy set up and sustained in the East by the foremost democracy of the Western world. It was not possible for that non-hegemonic state to assimilate the civil society of the colonized to itself. Thus the colonial state, as Guha defines it in this closely argued work, was a paradox--a dominance without hegemony. Dominance without Hegemony had a nationalist aspect as well. This arose from a structural split between the elite and subaltern domains of politics, and the consequent failure of the Indian bourgeoisie to integrate vast areas of the life and consciousness of the people into an alternative hegemony. That predicament is discussed in terms of the nationalist project of anticipating power by mobilizing the masses and producing an alternative historiography. In both endeavors the elite claimed to speak for the people constituted as a nation and sought to challenge the pretensions of an alien regime to represent the colonized. A rivalry between an aspirant to power and its incumbent, this was in essence a contest for hegemony.

Author : Iris Marion Young,Danielle S. Allen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691152622

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Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young,Danielle S. Allen Pdf

"In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements that were created by marginal and excluded groups, including women, African Americans, and American Indians, as well as gays and lesbians. Young argues that by assuming a homogeneous public, democratic theorists fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms. Consequently, theorists do not adequately address the problems of an inclusive participatory framework. Basing her vision of the good society on the culturally plural networks of contemporary urban life, Young makes the case that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group differences"--Provided by publisher.

Author : C. Truett Baker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781453504451

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Church-State Cooperation Without Domination by C. Truett Baker Pdf

Church-State Cooperation Without Domination os a historical review highlighting the antecedents leading up to present day church-state relations in the United States. Successful models of cooperation between government and faith-based agencies are described with the final chapter suggesting a new model for church-state relations that protects religious freedom while preserving the principle of limited government involvement with religion. It isn't a question of if or should government and religion mix. They already do, but there is little consensus on how to balance separation and cooperation. This book addresses those issues.

Author : Kelly Oliver
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786608659

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Response Ethics by Kelly Oliver Pdf

Ideal for students in philosophy, animal studies and gender studies, this volume explores an important question: what grounds our ethical responsibility? It covers a range of topics including maternal bodies, animal rights, capital punishment, depression and trauma, demonstrating the evolution of Kelly Oliver's seminal work in response ethics.

Author : William A. Edmundson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107173194

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John Rawls: Reticent Socialist by William A. Edmundson Pdf

The first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, further developing his ideas of 'justice-as-fairness'.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969457

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Dead Composers, Living Audiences by Anonim Pdf

Author : Eva Feder Kittay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136640094

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Love's Labor by Eva Feder Kittay Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786609281

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Decrypting Power by Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo Pdf

Decrypting Power aims to reach a unifying concept that allows the connection of the fundamental theses stemming from critical legal studies, Subaltern studies, decolonization, law and society, global political economy, critical geopolitics and theories of de-coloniality. This volume proposes that this concept is the ‘encryption of power’, a category of analysis that reveals the weakness of political liberalism when it takes the place of the legitimate fundament of democracy, as well as its consummate capacity to conceal new mechanisms of global power. The theory of encryption of power understands that there is only a world where difference exists as the fundamental and sole order, but also that such a possibility is heavily obstructed by the concentration of power in forms of oppression. The world hangs on the thread of this entangled reality, made up of difference and its denial, of democracy and its simulations, of truth and its codifications. The decryption of power is then, above all, a theory of justice essential to radical democracy, which comes fully-equipped to prevail over the conditions that deny the possibility of an egalitarian world.

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781844676125

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Mapping Ideology by Slavoj Zizek Pdf

For a long time, the term “ideology” was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years have seen a revival of interest in the questions that ideology poses to social and cultural theory and to political practice. Including Slavoj Žižek’s study of the development of the concept from Marx to the present, assessments of the contributions of Lukács and the Frankfurt School by Terry Eagleton, Peter Dews and Seyla Benhabib, and essays by Adorno, Lacan and Althusser, Mapping Ideology is an invaluable guide to the most dynamic field in cultural theory.

Author : Meghan Condon,Amber Wichowsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226691909

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The Economic Other by Meghan Condon,Amber Wichowsky Pdf

Economic inequality is at a record high in the United States, but public demand for redistribution is not rising with it. Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky show that this paradox and other mysteries about class and US politics can be solved through a focus on social comparison. Powerful currents compete to propel attention up or down—toward the rich or the poor—pulling politics along in the wake. Through an astute blend of experiments, surveys, and descriptions people offer in their own words, The Economic Other reveals that when less-advantaged Americans compare with the rich, they become more accurate about their own status and want more from government. But American society is structured to prevent upward comparison. In an increasingly divided, anxious nation, opportunities to interact with the country’s richest are shrinking, and people prefer to compare to those below to feel secure. Even when comparison with the rich does occur, many lose confidence in their power to effect change. Laying bare how social comparisons drive political attitudes, The Economic Other is an essential look at the stubborn plight of inequality and the measures needed to solve it.

Author : J. M. Bernstein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 0415058589

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Frankfurt School by J. M. Bernstein Pdf

The Frankfurt School' refers to the members associated with the "Institut fur Sozialforschung (Institute for Social Research) " which was founded in Frankfurt in 1923. The work of this group is generally agreed to have been a landmark in twentieth century social science. It is of seminal importance in our understanding of culture, progress, politics, production, consumption and method. This set of six volumes provides a full picture of the School by examining the important developments that have occured since the deaths of the original core of Frankfurt scholars. All the major figures--Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Benjamin--are represented. In particular, the important post-war work of Jurgen Habermas is fully assessed. The collection also covers the work of many of the minor figures associated with the School who have been unfairly neglected in the past, resulting in the most complete survey and guide to the "oeuvre" of the Frankfurt School.