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OverviewSocial Justice is a central concern of contemporary politics and political theory. The essays in this collection provide perspectives on the origins, development and likely problems for our understanding of the concept of social or distributive justice. Exploring the sources and origins of modern theories of justice as well as their critiques, this study is an excellent introduction to and survey of contemporary issues of social justice. Richard Bellamy University of East Anglia; David Boucher University of Wales, Swansea; Chris Brown University of Southampton; Joseph V Femia University of Liverpool; Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Boucher , Paul KellyPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.589kg ISBN: 9780415149976ISBN 10: 0415149975 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 25 June 1998 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , 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. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""In sum, readers of this volume will encoutner a fair number of interesting ideas, belonging to different parts of the hisotrical and political spectrum, accompanied by numerous references to more substanial works.--Eugene Schlossberger, Purdue University."" ""With this work Boucher and Kelly have provided a pedagogically useful guide to liberalism's continuing engagement with questions of social justice. ""Social Justice successfully shows the vigor of alternative traditions while at the same time avoids underplaying the differences within the liberal tradition itself, neither reducing the tradition to simply the banal orthodoxy of rational choice theory nor to Rawlsian contractarian justifications of distributive justice.."" -Matthew R. Hachee, Michigan State University" In sum, readers of this volume will encoutner a fair number of interesting ideas, belonging to different parts of the hisotrical and political spectrum, accompanied by numerous references to more substanial works.--Eugene Schlossberger, Purdue University. <br> With this work Boucher and Kelly have provided a pedagogically useful guide to liberalism's continuing engagement with questions of social justice. Social Justice successfully shows the vigor of alternative traditions while at the same time avoids underplaying the differences within the liberal tradition itself, neither reducing the tradition to simply the banal orthodoxy of rational choice theory nor to Rawlsian contractarian justifications of distributive justice.. <br>-Matthew R. Hachee, Michigan State University <br> Author InformationDavid Boucher, Paul Kelly Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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