Naomi Zack

Applicative Justice (eBook, PDF)

A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice

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Produktbeschreibung

Naomi Zack pioneers a new theory of justice starting from a correction of current injustices. While the present justice paradigm in political philosophy and related fields begins from John Rawls's 1970 Theory of Justice, Zack insists that what people in reality care about is not justice as an ideal, but injustice as a correctable ill. For a way to describe real injustice and the society in which it occurs, Zack resurrect Arthur Bentley's key insight that government and law (or political life) is a constant process of contending interest groups throughout society. Bentley's main idea allows for a resolution of the contradiction between formal legal equality for U.S. minorities and post-civil rights practical inequality. Just law and unjust practice co-exist as a fact of political life. The correction of injustice in reality requires applicative justice, in a comparison between those who are treated unjustly with those who are treated justly, and the design of effective measures to equalize such treatment. Zack's theory of applicative justice offers a revolutionary reorientation of society's pursuit of justice, seeking to undo injustice in a practical and fully achievable way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216219842
• Artikelnr.: 74830188

Autorenporträt

Naomi Zack is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY. Her recent books are Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies, The American Tragedy of COVID-19: Social and Political Crises of 2020, Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government, and Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Key Ideas and Chapter Scopes
1. Ideal Theory, Nonideal Theory, and Empirical Political Theory
2. Limits of Law and Government
3. Ideal Equality and Real Inequality
4. The Distribution of Procedural Justice
5. Discourse, Prophecy, and Atmosphere
6. The Discourse of Political Activism
7. Postscript: An Invitation to the Reader
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author