1st Edition

Global Justice Critical Perspectives

Edited By Sebastiano Maffettone, Aakash Singh Rathore Copyright 2012
216 Pages
by Routledge India

216 Pages
by Routledge India

216 Pages
by Routledge India

The global justice debate has been raging for forty years. Not merely the terms and conditions, but, more deeply, the epistemic, existential and ethical grounds of the international relations of persons, states and institutions are being determined, debated and negotiated. Yet the debate remains essentially a parochial one, confined largely to Western intellectuals and institutional spaces. An... Read more

Acknowledgements. Introduction: The Rawlsian Provenance of the Global Justice Debate. Part I. Introducing the Debate 1. Famine, Affluence, and Morality Peter Singer 2. ‘Assisting’ the Global Poor Thomas W. Pogge 3. The Problem of Global Justice Thomas Nagel 4. Beneficence, Justice and Demandingness: A Criticism of the Main Mitigation Strategies Gianfranco Pellegrino Part II. Deparochializing the Debate 5. Global Justice Amartya Sen 6. Who Owes Whom, Why, and To What Effect? Neera Chandhoke 7. The Romance of Global Justice: Sen’s Deparochialization and the Quandary of Dalit Marxism Aakash Singh Rathore 8. Postmodern Postcolonial Theory versus Political Liberalism: Avoiding the Liason Dangeureuse in Global Justice and IR Theory Sebastiano Maffettone. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index.

Biography

Sebastiano Maffettone is Dean of the Faculty of Political Science; Professor of Political Philosophy; and Director of the Centre for Ethics and Global Politics, at Luiss University, Rome.

Aakash Singh Rathore is Research Fellow, Centre for Ethics and Global Politics, Luiss University, Rome; and Visiting Fellow, Developing Countries Research Centre, University of Delhi.