
Justice and the Politics of Difference
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Danielle Allen's new foreword contextualizes Young's work and explains how debates surrounding social justice have changed since--and been transformed by--the original publication of Justice and the Politics of Difference.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword to the 2011 Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Displacing the Distributive Paradigm
- The Distributive Paradigm
- The Distributive Paradigm Presupposes and Obscures Institutional Context
- Overextending the Concept of Distribution
- Problems with Talk of Distributing Power
- Defining Injustice as Domination and Oppression
- Chapter 2. Five Faces of Oppression
- Oppression as a Structural Concept
- The Concept of a Social Group
- The Faces of Oppression
- Applying the Criteria
- Chapter 3. Insurgency and the Welfare Capitalist Society
- Normative Principles of Welfare Capitalist Society
- The Depoliticization of Welfare Capitalist Society
- The Ideological Function of the Distributive Paradigm
- The Administered Society and New Forms of Domination
- Insurgency and the Repoliticization of Public Life
- The Dialectic of Recontainment versus Democracy
- Democracy as a Condition of Social Justice
- Chapter 4. The Ideal of Impartiality and the Civic Public
- Postmodernist Critique of the Logic of Identity
- The Ideal of Impartiality as Denying Difference
- The Impossibility of Impartiality
- The Logic of Identity in the Ideal of the Civic Public
- Ideological Functions of the Ideal of Impartiality
- Participatory Democracy and the Idea of a Heterogeneous Public
- Chapter 5. The Scaling of Bodies and the Politics of Identity
- The Scaling of Bodies in Modern Discourse
- Conscious Acceptance, Unconscious Aversion
- Behavioral Norms of Respectability
- Xenophobia and Abjection
- Moral Responsibility and Unintended Action
- Justice and Cultural Revolution
- Chapter 6. Social Movements and the Politics of Difference
- Competing Paradigms of Liberation
- Emancipation through the Politics of Difference
- Reclaiming the Meaning of Difference
- Respecting Difference in Policy
- The Heterogeneous Public and Group Represenation
- Chapter 7. Affirmative Action and the Myth of Merit
- Affirmative Action and the Principle of Nondiscrimination
- Affirmative Action Discussion and the Distributive Paradigm
- The Myth of Merit
- Education and Testing as Performance Proxies
- The Politics of Qualifications
- Oppression and the Social Division of Labor
- The Democratic Division of Labor
- Chapter 8. City Life and Difference
- The Opposition between Individualism and Community
- The Rousseauist Dream
- Privileging Face-to-Face Relations
- Undesirable Political Consequences of the Ideal of Community
- City Life as a Normative Ideal
- Cities and Social Injustice
- Empowerment without Autonomy
- Epilogue: International Justice
- References
- Index
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