Beschreibung:
Both classical and modern accounts of justice largely overlook the question of how the communities within which justice applies are constituted in the first place. This book addresses that problem, arguing that we need to accord a place to the theory of 'constitutive justice' alongside traditional categories of distributive and commutative justice.
PrefaceIntroduction: What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and Everybody Came?Chapter 1: The Scope and Scale of JusticeChapter 2: Reservations about Constitutive JusticeChapter 3: Constitutive Justice-A Paradox?Chapter 4: Justice Between Communitarianism and CosmopolitanismChapter 5: Four Transcommunal ApproachesChapter 6: Constituents of a TheoryChapter 7: Toward a Theory of Constitutive JusticeBibliographyIndex