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Oxford Injustice Political Theory for the Real World 2018 Edition by Michael Goodhart
This book challenges the conventional approach to problems of injustice in global normative theory. It offers a radical alternative designed to transform our thinking about what kind of problem injustice is and to show how political theorists might do better in understanding and addressing it. Michael Goodhart argues that the dominant paradigm, ideal moral theory (IMT), takes a fundamentally wrong-headed approach to injustice. At the same time, leading alternatives_x000D_to IMT struggle to make sense of the role values play in politics and abandon political theorys critical and prescriptive aspirations. Goodhart treats justice claims as ideological and develops an innovative bifocal theoretical framework for making sense of them. This framework reconciles realistic_x000D_political analysis with substantive normative commitments, enabling theorists to come to grips with injustice as a political rather than a philosophical problem. The book describes the work that political theory and political theorists can do to combat injustice and illustrates its key arguments through a novel reconceptualization of responsibility for injustice._x000D_ Table of Contents :- _x000D_
Table of Contents_x000D_
Acknowledgments _x000D_
Introduction _x000D_
Part I: Un-thinking Ideal Moral Theory_x000D_
Chapter 1: The Trouble with Justice _x000D_
Chapter 2: Barking up the Wrong Trees _x000D_
Part II: Re-conceptualizing the Problem _x000D_
Chapter 3: Getting Real? _x000D_
Chapter 4: The Bifocal Approach _x000D_
Chapter 5: A Democratic Account of Injustice _x000D_
Part III: Political Theory for the Real World_x000D_
Chapter 6: Political Theory and the Politics of Injustice _x000D_
Chapter 7: Taking Responsibility for Injustice _x000D_
Notes _x000D_
Bibliography _x000D_
Index_x000D_