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The Concept of Injustice

By Eric Heinze

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136205736, 9780415524414
LCC
JC578 .H44 2012
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1537970 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
223\0
Time added
2023-08-03 22:08:55
Justice in literature; LAW000000; LAW052000; LIT01

Description

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 justice.　 Justice is not always the cure for injustice, and is often its cause.

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