Arguing about justice : essays for Philippe Van Parijs / Axel Gosseries & Yannick Vanderborght, eds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Axel Gosseries, Philippe Vanderborght (dir.)

Contributor:

Gosseries, Axel.

Parijs, Philippe van, 1951-

Vanderborght, Yannick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Philosophy.

Law.

Parijs, Philippe van, 1951-.

Parijs, Philippe van.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Presses universitaires de Louvain 2011

Louvain : Presses Universitaires de Louvain, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together fifty of today’s finest thinkers. They were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs’s sixtieth birthday. Rather than restricting themselves to comments on his numerous writings, the authors engage with the topics on which he has focused his attention over the years, especially with the various dimensions of justice, its scope, and its demands. They discuss issues ranging from the fair distribution of marriage opportunities to the limits of argumentation in a democracy, the deep roots of inequality, the challenges to basic income and the requirements of linguistic justice. They provide ample food for thought for both academic and general readers.

Contents:

Intro

Arguing about justice

Contents

On the contributors and editors

Abstracts

Foreword

Using the internet to save journalism from the internet

Marriages as assets? Real freedom and relational freedom

The guaranteed income as an equal-opportunity tool in the transition toward sustainability

The ideal of self-development: personal or political?

Reflections on the limits of argument

Taxation, fees and social justice

Real freedom for all turtles in Sugarscape?

Linguistic diversity and economic security are complements

Legitimate partiality, parents and patriots

Individual responsibility and social policy

Distributing freedom over whole lives

Love not war

Why do we blame survivors?

Why big ideas never change society

Cooperative justice and opportunity costs

Too much punishment and too little forgiveness in the Eurozone

Talking about democracy

Let's Brusselize the world!

Translations: economic efficiency and linguistic justice

If Marx or Freud had never lived?

English or Esperanto: a case for levelling down?

The breeder's welfare state: a cautionary note

A mobile water project: mobile-for-development meets human-centered design

Prospects for basic income: a British perspective

Should a Marxist believe in human rights?

Why has Cuban state socialism escaped its "1989"?

A universal duty to care

The ideological roots of inequality and what is to be done

Philosophers and taboo trade-offs in health care

Multilingual democracy and public sphere

On genetic inequality

A federal electoral district for Belgium?

Towards an unconditional basic income in Brazil?

Is it always better to clear up misunderstandings?

Why auntie's boring tea parties matter for the fair distribution of gifts

Lamentation in the face of historical necessity.

Self-determination for (some) cities?

Why we demand an unconditional basic income: the ECSO freedom case

Linguistic protectionism and wealth maximinimization

In defense of genderlessness

The capitalist road to communism: are we there yet?.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2013).

OpenEdition Books License https://www.openedition.org/12554

ISBN:

2-87558-196-1

2-87463-298-8

OCLC:

932350506

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access