Relational Egalitarianism
Living as Equals
Published on 17. September 2018
268 pages
978-1-108-59414-1 (ISBN)
Description
Over the last twenty years, many political philosophers have rejected the idea that justice is fundamentally about distribution. Rather, justice is about social relations, and the so-called distributive paradigm should be replaced by a new relational paradigm. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen seeks to describe, refine, and assess these thoughts and to propose a comprehensive form of egalitarianism which includes central elements from both relational and distributive paradigms. He shows why many of the challenges that luck egalitarianism faces reappear, once we try to specify relational egalitarianism more fully. His discussion advances understanding of the nature of the relational ideal, and introduces new conceptual tools for understanding it and for exploring the important question of why it is desirable in the first place to relate as equals. Even severe critics of the distributive understanding of justice will find that this book casts important new light on the ideal to which they subscribe.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Tables, black and white
File size
2,87 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-59414-1 (9781108594141)
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09/2018
Cambridge University Press
€117.50
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Person
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen is Professor of Political Theory at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark, and Professor II in Philosophy at the University of Tromso. His books include Born Free and Equal? (2013) and Luck Egalitarianism (2015).
Content
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part I. Nature: 2. Relational egalitarianism; 3. Relating to one another as equals; 4. Equality and being in a position to hold others accountable: a case study; Part II. Site, Scope, and Justification: 5. Egalitarian relations: time, site, and scope; 6. Justification of and by the ideal; Part III. Relational and Distributive Equality; 7. Pluralist egalitarianism; 8. Often the twain meet; Conclusion; References; Index.
