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OverviewIn this exciting new work, Miriam Bankovsky shows how the pursuit of justice requires two orientations. The first is a practical commitment to the possibility of justice, which is the clear starting point for the broadly constructive theories of Rawls, Habermas and Honneth. Indeed, if justice were not possible, it would be difficult to see why it is worthwhile for human beings to live on this earth. However, a second orientation qualifies the first. It can be expressed as a deconstructive attentiveness to the impossibility of determining justice's content. This impossibility results from the tension between the appeal for individual consideration and the appeal for impartiality, demands that Derrida believes our historical concept of justice includes. Framed by these two orientations, this ambitious book explores the promise and shortcomings of the constructive theories. Attentive to concrete experiences of injustice that these thinkers tend to overlook, Bankovsky provocatively challenges Rawls' account of civil disobedience, Habermas' defence of rational consensus, and Honneth's ideal of mutual recognition, providing new insights into deconstruction's relevance for contemporary theories of justice. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr Miriam BankovskyPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.532kg ISBN: 9781441195418ISBN 10: 1441195416 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 26 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsAcknowledgements \ 1. Perfecting justice: an art of the im/possible \ Part I. Justice as fairness: a project to pursue \ 2. Rawls and the possibility of 'ideal theory' \ 3. Rawls and the 'undecidability' of the original position procedure \ Part II. Rational consensus: open to contestation in principle \ 4. Habermas and the possibility of popular sovereignty \ 5. Habermas and the perfectibility of deliberative outcomes \ Part III. Perfecting recognition relations \ 6. Honneth and the possibility of mutual recognition \ 7. Honneth and moral progress in the quality of recognition relations \ 8. Im/possibility and the cultivation of deconstructive civic attitudes \ Bibliography \ IndexReviewsIn this clearly written and carefully argued book, Miriam Bankovsky brings Jacques Derrida's deconstruction to bear on Rawls, Habermas and Honneth to develop a deconstructive perspective on justice that does not simply deny the possibility of justice. The book will be hard to ignore for anyone interested in the relationship between these thinkers. -- Lasse Thomassen, Queen Mary University of London, UK Miriam Bankovsky's exemplary book offers a thoughtful reflection on theorizing justice, which demonstrates the benefits of bringing different traditions of thought into dialogue with one another. Lucidly written and compellingly argued, it offers both a distinctive account of theorizing justice as a civic activity and provides the basis for a productive rapprochement between contrasting approaches to this activity. -- David Owen, University of Southampton, UK Author InformationMiriam Bankovsky lectures in politics at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the co-editor, with Alice Le Goff, of Recognition theory and contemporary French moral and political philosophy: Reopening the dialogue (2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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