1st Edition

Rectifying Historical Injustice Debating the Supersession Thesis

Edited By Lukas H. Meyer, Timothy Waligore Copyright 2023
154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

Calls for redress of historical wrongs regularly make headlines around the world. People dispute the degree to which justice should be concerned with righting past wrongs, with some arguing that justice should be primarily focused on claims arising from present disadvantage. Proponents and sceptics of restitution, compensation, and other forms of historical redress have engaged with the thesis... Read more

1. Superseding historical injustice? New critical assessments

Lukas H. Meyer and Timothy Waligore

2. Colonialism and rights supersession: a Kant-inspired perspective

Julio Montero

3. Superseding structural linguistic injustice? Language revitalization and historically-sensitive dignity-based claims

Seunghyun Song

4. The supersession thesis, climate change, and the rights of future people

Santiago Truccone-Borgogno

5. Group agency and the challenges of repairing historical injustice

Jeff Spinner-Halev

6. Supersession, non-ideal theory, and dominant distributive principles

Burke A. Hendrix

7. Indigenous governance now: settler colonial injustice is not historically past

Esme G. Murdock

8. The supersession of Indigenous understandings of justice and morals

Gordon Christie

9. Supersession: A reply

Jeremy Waldron

Biography

Lukas H. Meyer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Graz, Austria. He has written and edited numerous books, articles, and encyclopaedia entries on intergenerational justice, historical injustice, and climate change ethics. He is one of the two speakers of Cluster of Excellence Climate Change Graz.

Timothy Waligore is Associate Professor of Political Science at Pace University in New York, USA. His publications on reparations, Indigenous peoples, Immanuel Kant, and global justice have appeared in Moral Philosophy and PoliticsPolitics, Philosophy & Economics; and Public Reason. He co-edited (with Buckinx and Trejo-Mathys) Domination and Global Political Justice (Routledge, 2015).