The Sense Of Injustice

Author : Robert G. Folger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461326830

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The Sense of Injustice by Robert G. Folger Pdf

The importance of justice cannot be overstated. As one author has put it, "A better understanding of how justice concerns develop and function in people's lives should enable us to plan more effectively for institutional and other social change to deal with the problems that confront humankind" (S. C. Lerner, 1981, p. 466). The volume in which that statement appeared-an earlier one in this same series-was devoted to exploring the impact that dwindling resources and an increasing rate of change have had upon people's concern for justice. In contrast, the present volume places greater emphasis on the word under standing, as it was used in the context of the preceding quotation, than upon effective planning, social change, and ways of dealing with human problems. Nothing in that statement of purpose is meant to belittle the urgency of translat ing understanding into action, because the social significance of justice concerns is a major factor that has prompted the authors of the chapters in this book to do research in the area. Rather, this volume receives its emphasis from Kurt Lewin's famous dictum there is nothing so practical as a good theory. The need for good theory is ongoing, and these pages are dedicated to a search for new pathways toward better theory.

Author : Edmond Cahn
Publisher : Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39076005988972

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A Sense of Injustice by Edmond Cahn Pdf

Author : Jeff Spinner-Halev
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107017511

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Enduring Injustice by Jeff Spinner-Halev Pdf

Argues that understanding the impact of past injustices faced by some peoples can help us understand and overcome injustice today.

Author : Judith N. Shklar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300056702

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The Faces of Injustice by Judith N. Shklar Pdf

How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbor? In this book a distinguished political theorist ponders these and other questions and formulates a new political and moral theory of injustice that encompasses not only deliberate acts of cruelty or unfairness but also indifference to such acts. Judith N. Shklar draws on the writings of Plato, Augustine, and Montaigne, three skeptics who gave the theory of injustice its main structure and intellectual force, as well as on political theory, history, social psychology, and literature from sources as diverse as Rosseau, Dickens, Hardy, and E. L. Doctorow. Shklar argues that we cannot set rigid rules to distinguish instances of misfortune from injustice, as most theories of justice would have us do, for such definitions would not take into account historical variability and differences in perception and interest between the victims and spectators. From the victim's point of view--whether it be one who suffered in an earthquake or as a result of social discrimination--the full definition of injustice must include not only the immediate cause of disaster but also our refusal to prevent and then to mitigate the damage, or what Shklar calls passive injustice. With this broader definition comes a call for greater responsibility from both citizens and public servants. When we attempt to make political decisions about what to do in specific instances of injustice, says Shklar, we must give the victim's voice its full weight. This is in keeping with the best impulses of democracy and is our only alternative to a complacency that is bound to favor the unjust.

Author : Peter Salovey
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1991-02-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0898625556

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The Psychology of Jealousy and Envy by Peter Salovey Pdf

After decades of banishment to popular magazines and advice columns, jealousy and envy have emerged as legitimate topics of scientific inquiry. This volume includes chapters from nearly every major contributor to the psychological literature in this area. From emotional, and cognitive processes that underlie jealousy and envy; to the ways these emotions are experienced and expressed within close relationships; to family, societal, and cultural contexts, the volume offers a definitive statement of current theory and research.

Author : Edmond N. Cahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Law
ISBN : OCLC:249899050

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The Sense of Injustice by Edmond N. Cahn Pdf

Author : Michelle Alexander
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781620971949

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The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Pdf

Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

Author : V. Bufacchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230358447

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Social Injustice by V. Bufacchi Pdf

The idea of social injustice is pivotal to much contemporary moral and political philosophy. Starting from a comprehensive and engaging account of the idea of social injustice, this book covers a whole range of issues, including distributive justice, exploitation, torture, moral motivations, democratic theory, voting behaviour and market socialism.

Author : Clive Barnett
Publisher : Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 0820351520

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The Priority of Injustice by Clive Barnett Pdf

This original and ambitious work looks anew at a series of intellectual debates about the meaning of democracy. Clive Barnett engages with key thinkers in various traditions of democratic theory and demonstrates the importance of a geographical imagination in interpreting contemporary political change. Debates about radical democracy, Barnett argues, have become trapped around a set of oppositions between deliberative and agonistic theories--contrasting thinkers who promote the possibility of rational agreement and those who seek to unmask the role of power or violence or difference in shaping human affairs. While these debates are often framed in terms of consensus versus contestation, Barnett unpacks the assumptions about space and time that underlie different understandings of the sources of political conflict and shows how these differences reflect deeper philosophical commitments to theories of creative action or revived ontologies of "the political." Rather than developing ideal theories of democracy or models of proper politics, he argues that attention should turn toward the practices of claims-making through which political movements express experiences of injustice and make demands for recognition, redress, and re pair. By rethinking the spatial grammar of discussions of public space, democratic inclusion, and globalization, Barnett develops a conceptual framework for analyzing the crucial roles played by geographical processes in generating and processing contentious politics.

Author : Emmanuel Renault
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231548984

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The Experience of Injustice by Emmanuel Renault Pdf

In The Experience of Injustice, the French philosopher Emmanuel Renault opens an important new chapter in critical theory. He brings together political theory, critical social science, and a keen sense of the power of popular movements to offer a forceful vision of social justice. Questioning normative political philosophy’s conception of justice, Renault gives an account of injustice as the denial of recognition, placing the experience of social suffering at the heart of contemporary critical theory. Inspired by Axel Honneth, Renault argues that a radicalized version of Honneth’s ethics of recognition can provide a systematic alternative to the liberal-democratic projects of such thinkers as Rawls and Habermas. Renault reformulates Honneth’s theory as a framework founded on experiences of injustice. He develops a complex, psychoanalytically rich account of suffering, disaffiliation, and identity loss to explain these experiences as denials of recognition, linking everyday injustice to a robust defense of the politicization of identity in social struggles. Engaging contemporary French and German critical theory alongside interdisciplinary tools from sociology, psychoanalysis, socialist political theory, social-movement theory, and philosophy, Renault articulates the importance of a theory of recognition for the resurgence of social critique.

Author : Robert G Folger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461326842

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The Sense of Injustice by Robert G Folger Pdf

Author : Miranda Fricker
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191519307

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Epistemic Injustice by Miranda Fricker Pdf

In this exploration of new territory between ethics and epistemology, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy, but in order to reveal the ethical dimension of our epistemic practices the focus must shift to injustice. Fricker adjusts the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice. The book explores two different types of epistemic injustice, each driven by a form of prejudice, and from this exploration comes a positive account of two corrective ethical-intellectual virtues. The characterization of these phenomena casts light on many issues, such as social power, prejudice, virtue, and the genealogy of knowledge, and it proposes a virtue epistemological account of testimony. In this ground-breaking book, the entanglements of reason and social power are traced in a new way, to reveal the different forms of epistemic injustice and their place in the broad pattern of social injustice.

Author : Eric Heinze
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780415524414

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The Concept of Injustice by Eric Heinze Pdf

The Concept of Injustice insists upon a re-thinking of Western theories of Justice, arguing that injustice, not justice, should be the focus of our attention.

Author : Reiko Gotoh,Paul Dumouchel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139483667

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Against Injustice by Reiko Gotoh,Paul Dumouchel Pdf

Traditional theories of justice as formulated by political philosophers, jurists and economists have all tended to see injustice as simply a breach of justice, a breakdown of the normal order. Amartya Sen's work acts as a corrective to this tradition by arguing that we can recognise patent injustices, and come to a reasoned agreement about the need to remedy them, without reference to an explicit theory of justice. Against Injustice brings together distinguished academics from a variety of different fields - including economics, law, philosophy and anthropology - to explore the ideas underlying Sen's critique of traditional approaches to injustice. The centrepiece of the book is the first chapter by Sen in which he outlines his conception of the relationship between economics, ethics and law. The rest of the book addresses a variety of theoretical and empirical issues that relate to this conception, concluding with a response from Sen to his critics.

Author : Edmond Nathaniel Cahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Law
ISBN : OCLC:255968985

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The Sense of Injustice by Edmond Nathaniel Cahn Pdf