Constitutive Justice

by William A. Barbieri

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349556953
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/05/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	263
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

William A. Barbieri Jr. is Associate Professor of Religious Ethics and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Ethics of Citizenship: Immigration and Group Rights in Germany (Duke, 1998), co-editor of From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics (De Gruyter, 2012; with Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven), and editor of At the Limits of the Secular: Reflections on Faith and Public Life (Eerdmans, 2014).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and Everybody Came?
Chapter 1: The Scope and Scale of Justice
Chapter 2: Reservations about Constitutive Justice
Chapter 3: Constitutive Justice—A Paradox?
Chapter 4: Justice Between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism
Chapter 5: Four Transcommunal Approaches
Chapter 6: Constituents of a Theory
Chapter 7: Toward a Theory of Constitutive Justice
Bibliography
Index