Discourses of Justice - Indicators of Crises?
Werner Gephart(Editor)
Vittorio Klostermann Verlag
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 31. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-3-465-04762-9 (ISBN)
Description
There have been numerous attempts to trace a historical, if not evolutionary, line through the development of discourses on justice. As impressive as this tradition is, the everyday use and labeling of people, actions, and structures as 'just' or 'unjust' seems to us to be far removed from it. In political discourse, from left to right, people make use of the semantics of justice, and in another sphere, a pluralistic use is emerging, namely in the world religions. Social developments seem to be characterised precisely by the fact that they claim to be evaluated from the perspective of 'just/unjust': this applies to the gender debate, the discourse on climate justice, intergenerational justice, questions of restorative justice, memory justice, or epistemic justice and ontological injustice in the religious discourse of Catholicism. At the same time, the spread of the vocabulary of justice seems to be both an expression and a harbinger of a crisis in the sphere, because if the distribution of goods, access to status, the use of essential goods, access to educational places of remembrance, and so on are perceived as 'unjust', then this indicates a 'crisis' in which a sphere can develop in a more just or more unjust direction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Frankfurt / Main
Germany
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-465-04762-9 (9783465047629)
Schweitzer Classification