Just Ideas
Transformative Ideals of Justice in Ethical and Political Thought
Series Editors: Drucilla Cornell, University of Cape Town and Roger Berkowitz, Bard College
In his novel A Frolic of His Own, William Gaddis writes: “Justice? You get justice in the next world. In this world, you have the law.” Justice, Gaddis suggests, is a fata morgana, an abstraction, a frolic of one’s own. Justice, as many have argued, is “just an idea,” one that has little if any significance in the real world.
Since the question of justice is one of human scope, the books in the series will encompass the breadth of humanist scholarship, mixing philosophy, literature, history, politics, and law. In contrast to those who understand law and justice to be simply various ideologies marshaled in the struggle for political power, the authors in this series insist that the idea of justice itself is meaningful for the legal and political activity of building a better and more human world.
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The Gift of Science (Paperback)
Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition Roger BerkowitzPrice: $28.00The front pages of our newspapers and the chatter on the blogs bear witness to the divorce of law from justice. Highly paid lawyers mine the law for loopholes to help Fortune 500 corporations legally evade their taxes and spoil the environment. In a world governed by the rule of law, justice, it...
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Kantian Courage (Hardcover)
Advancing the Enlightenment in Contemporary Political Theory Nicholas TampioPrice: $85.00How may progressive political theorists advance the Enlightenment after Darwin shifted the conversation about human nature in the 19th century, the Holocaust displayed barbarity at the historical center of the Enlightenment, and 9/11 showed the need to modify the ideals and strategies of the...
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The Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (Hardcover)
Cases and Materials, Volumes I & II Edited by Drucilla Cornell, Stu Woolman, Sam Fuller, Jason Brickhill, Michael Bishop, and Diana DunbarPrice: $195.00Since the Second World War, dignity has increasingly been recognized as an important moral and legal value. Although important examples of dignity-based arguments can be found in western European and North American case law and legal theory, the dignity jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court...
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The Creolizing Subject (Paperback)
Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity Michael J. MonahanPrice: $28.00How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon, and vice versa? How should we envision the aims and
methods of our struggles against racism?
Traditionally, the Western political and...
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The Creolizing Subject (Hardcover)
Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity Michael J. MonahanPrice: $80.00How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon, and vice versa? How should we envision the aims and
methods of our struggles against racism?
Traditionally, the Western political and...
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