The concept of injustice / Eric Heinze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heinze, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice.

Justice (Philosophy).

Justice in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory. ?Thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant, Hegel, Marx and Rawls have subordinated the idea of injustice to the idea of justice.? Misled by the word's etymology, political theorists have assumed injustice to be the sheer, logical opposite of justice. ?Heinze summons ancient and early modern texts, philosophical and literary, with special attention to Shakespeare, to argue that injustice is not primarily the negation, failure or absence of justice.? It is the constant product of regimes and norms of jus

Contents:

Cover; The Concept of Injustice; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Sources; 1 Nietzsche's echo; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 A mutual exclusion?; 1.3 Plan of this book; PART 1 Classical understandings; 2 Injustice as the negation of justice; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Typical expressions of mutual exclusion; 2.3 Injustice within isolated contexts; 2.4 Injustice and anti-rationalism; 2.5 Injustice within systemic contexts; 2.6 A dialectic of injustice; 2.7 Historicist dialectics of injustice; 2.8 The partial incommensurability of justice and injustice; 3 Injustice as disunity

3.1 Introduction3.2 Disunity as the primary cause of injustice in Plato; 3.3 Disunity as a major element of injustice in Aristotle; 3.4 Disunity as metaphysical injustice in Christianity; 3.5 The dialectic of unity and individuality in modernity; 4 Injustice as mismeasurement; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Suum cuique as an empty formalism; 4.3 Suum cuique as a decisive element; 4.4 Injustice as failure of reciprocity; 4.5 Transition to a post-classical concept of justice; PART 2 Post-classical understandings; 5 Injustice as unity; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Antigone: conventional versus critical contexts

5.3 Macbeth: unity as the source of disunity5.4 Talbot: merit and myth; 6 Injustice as measurement; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 'Will much impeach the justice of the state'; 6.3 'Pageants of the sea'; 6.4 'Like a golden fleece'; 6.5 'Mine own teaching'; 6.6 'The complexion of a devil'; 6.7 'Kindness'; 6.8 'As swift as yours'; 6.9 'As much as he deserves'; 6.10 'Le plus beau, le plus fort'; 7 Measurement and modernity; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 'I'll counterpoise'; 7.3 'To set a gloss'; 7.4 'If things be measured equal to their worth'; 7.5 'My spirit's split in two'; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-20572-1

0-203-09424-7

1-283-84602-0

1-136-20573-X

9780203094242

OCLC:

821176298