Table of Contents
Foreword to the 2011 Edition ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
Chapter 1 Displacing the Distributive Paradigm 15
The Distributive Paradigm 16
The Distributive Paradigm Presupposes and Obscures Institutional Context18
Overextending the Concept of Distribution 24
Problems with Talk of Distributing Power 30
Defining Injustice as Domination and Oppression 33
Chapter 2 Five Faces of Oppression 39
Oppression as a Structural Concept 40
The Concept of a Social Group 42
The Faces of Oppression 48
Applying the Criteria 63
Chapter 3 Insurgency and the Welfare Capitalist Society 66
Normative Principles of Welfare Capitalist Society 67
The Depoliticization of Welfare Capitalist Society 70
The Ideological Function of the Distributive Paradigm 74
The Administered Society and New Forms of Domination 76
Insurgency and the Repoliticization of Public Life 81
The Dialectic of Recontainment versus Democracy 88
Democracy as a Condition of Social Justice 91
Chapter 4 The Ideal of Impartiality and the Civic Public 96
Postmodernist Critique of the Logic of Identity 98
The Ideal of Impartiality as Denying Difference 99
The Impossibility of Impartiality 102
The Logic of Identity in the Ideal of the Civic Public 107
Ideological Functions of the Ideal of Impartiality 111
Participatory Democracy and the Idea of a Heterogeneous Public 116
Chapter 5 TheScaling of Bodies and the Politics of Identity 122
The Scaling of Bodies in Modem Discourse 124
Conscious Acceptance, Unconscious Aversion 130
Behavioral Norms of Respectability 136
Xenophobia and Abjection 141
Moral Responsibility and Unintended Action 148
Justice and Cultural Revolution 152
Chapter 6 Social Movements and the Politics of Difference 156
Competing Paradigms of Liberation 158
Emancipation through the Politics of Difference 163
Reclaiming the Meaning of Difference 168
Responding Difference in Policy 173
The Heterogeneous Public and Group Representation 183
Chapter 7 Affirmative Action and the Myth of Merit 192
Affirmative Action and the Principle of Nondiscrimination 193
Affirmative Action Discussion and the Distributive Paradigm 198
The Myth of Merit 200
Education and Testing as Performance Proxies 206
The Politics of Qualifications 210
Oppression and the Social Division of Labor 214
The Democratic Division of Labor 222
Chapter 8 City Life and Difference 226
The Opposition between Individualism and Community 227
The Rousseauist Dream 229
Privileging Face-to-Face Relations 232
Undesirable Political Consequences of the Ideal of Comunity 234
City Life as a Normative Ideal 236
Cities and Social Injustice 241
Empowerment without Autonomy 248
Epilogue: International Justice 257
References 261
Index 277
