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OverviewHow should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of equality? In this book, Christine Sypnowich proposes a theory of equality centred on human flourishing or wellbeing. She argues that egalitarianism should be understood as seeking to make people more equal in the constituents of a good life. Inequality is a social ill because of the damage it does to human flourishing: unequal distribution of wealth can have the effect that some people are poorly housed, badly nourished, ill-educated, unhappy or uncultured, among other things. When we seek to make people more equal our concern is not just resources or property, but how people fare under one distribution or another. Ultimately, the best answer to the question, ‘equality of what?,’ is some conception of flourishing, since whatever policies or principles we adopt, it is flourishing that we hope will be more equal as a result of our endeavours. Sypnowich calls for both retrieval and innovation. What is to be retrieved is the ideal of equality itself, which is often assumed as a background condition of theories of justice, yet at the same time, dismissed as too homogenising, abstract and rigid a criterion for political argument. We must retrieve the ideal of equality as a central political principle. In doing so, she casts doubt on the value of focussing on cultural difference, and rejects the idea of neutrality that dominates contemporary political philosophy in favour of a view of the state as enabling the betterment of its citizens. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christine Sypnowich (Queens University, Canada)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 1.100kg ISBN: 9781138208810ISBN 10: 1138208817 Pages: 268 Publication Date: 16 December 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. 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Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Challenges to Equality Chapter 1: Beyond DifferenceChapter 2: Race, Culture and the Egalitarian Conscience Chapter 3: Androgyny and Girl Power, Sex, Equality and Human Goods Part II: Liberal Revisionism Chapter 4: Impartiality, Difference and Wellbeing Chapter 5: Equality and the Antinomies of Multicultural Liberalism Part III: Equality and Living WellChapter 6: What Equality Is and Is Not Chapter 7: Human Flourishing and the Use and Abuse of Equality Chapter 8: Autonomy and Living Well Chapter 9: Equality and the Public Good: Global and Local Chapter 10: Cosmopolitans, Cosmopolitanism and Human Flourishing Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviews'The literature on egalitarianism is a crowded one but, in her ambitious and engaging book, Christine Sypnowich is able to carve out a distinctive position that takes human flourishing to be central. She defends her novel egalitarian perfectionism by careful engagement with topical issues such as racial justice, gender equality, multiculturalism and liberal neutrality about the good. Equality Renewed is at once an original contribution to egalitarianism and a splendid analysis of the central debates of political philosophy.' -Kok-Chor Tan, University of Pennsylvania, USA 'The literature on egalitarianism is a crowded one but, in her ambitious and engaging book, Christine Sypnowich is able to carve out a distinctive position that takes human flourishing to be central. She defends her novel egalitarian perfectionism by careful engagement with topical issues such as racial justice, gender equality, multiculturalism and liberal neutrality about the good. Equality Renewed is at once an original contribution to egalitarianism and a splendid analysis of the central debates of political philosophy.' - Tan Kok-Chor, University of Pennsylvania, USA Equality Renewed will be of interest to a wide audience-including theorists who engage with questions of equality, difference, neutrality, and perfectionism-and will be a valuable resource for future debates concerning the role that the state should play in facilitating flourishing. -Paul Billingham, Ethics The literature on egalitarianism is a crowded one but, in her ambitious and engaging book, Christine Sypnowich is able to carve out a distinctive position that takes human flourishing to be central. She defends her novel egalitarian perfectionism by careful engagement with topical issues such as racial justice, gender equality, multiculturalism and liberal neutrality about the good. Equality Renewed is at once an original contribution to egalitarianism and a splendid analysis of the central debates of political philosophy. -Kok-Chor Tan , University of Pennsylvania, USA Author InformationChristine Sypnowich is Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada. She is the author of The Concept of Socialist Law (Oxford, 1990), and editor (with David Bakhurst) of The Social Self (Sage, 1995), and The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G.A. Cohen (Oxford, 2006). Her work has appeared in such journals as Political Theory, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, New Left Review and Politics and Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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