At least until the beginning of the 1990s, when the paradigm of recognition seemed to supplant the paradigm of redistributive justice theories, all the biggest contemporary political theories attempted to single out injustice in some form of inequality and tried in various ways to make individuals equal within a particular space for interpersonal comparison: whether this be the space of fundamental freedoms, income, wealth, conditions for self-respect, well-being, chances of well-being or capabilities. The objective of this work is to rebuild the main notions of equality and justice which have emerged from the contemporary philosophical-political debate and, at the same time, account for the critical theories that they have inspired, from the theories in which the language of difference adds to or surpasses the language of equality, to the paradigms located radically beyond all those regulatory positions which more or less explicitly arise from the liberal tradition, such as the paradigm of biopolitics, and that of cognitive capitalism.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-1618-7407
European University Institute, Italy
Book Title
Giustizia, uguaglianza e differenza
Book Subtitle
Una guida alla lettura della filosofia politica contemporanea
Authors
Brunella Casalini, Lorenzo Cini
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
310
Publication Year
2012
Copyright Information
© 2012 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-180-5
ISBN Print
978-88-6655-155-3
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6655-180-5
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6655-181-2
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-586-6
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919