Affirmative action and justice : a philosophical and constitutional inquiry / Michel Rosenfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosenfeld, Michel, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation--United States.

Affirmative action programs.

Equality before the law--United States.

Equality before the law.

Equality.

United States.

Affirmative action programs--Law and legislation.

Local Subjects:

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 373 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1991.

Summary:

Rosenfeld seeks to integrate philosophical and constitutional approaches to affirmative action policies. He analyzes four liberal conceptions of justice--libertarian, contractarian, utilitarian, and egalitarian, and critiques the Supreme Court's ambiguous and inconsistent legacy on affirmative action and considers relationships between philosophical conceptions of justice and court doctrine. He concludes with an attempt to construct an alternative conception of affirmative action, based on the "dynamic relationship between equality as identity and equality as difference." Rosenfeld develops a philosophical defense of affirmative action based on a principle of "justice as reversible reciprocity." He argues that deficiencies in liberal positions can be overcome through recourse to a dialogical process involving a "reversal of perspectives" and the suppression of power-dominated strategic communication. ISBN 0-300-04781-9: $30.00.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-358) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

ISBN:

0300047819

9780300047813

0300055080

9780300055085

OCLC:

21593296