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This book offers an original account of a distinctly republican theory of social and global justice. The book starts by exploring the nature and value of Hegelian recognition theory. It shows the importance of that theory for grounding a normative account of free and autonomous agency. It is this normative account of free agency which provides the groundwork for a republican conception of social and global justice, based on the core-ideas of freedom as non-domination and autonomy as non-alienation. As the author argues, republicans should endorse a sufficientarian account of social justice, which focuses on the nature of social relationships and their effects on people's ability to act freely and realize their fundamental interests. On the global level, the book argues for the cosmopolitan extension of the republican principles of non-domination and non-alienation within a multi-level democratic system. In so doing, the book addresses a major gap in the existing literature, presenting an original theory of justice, which combines Hegelian recognition theory and republican ideas of freedom, and applying this hybrid theory to the global domain. Fabian Schuppert creates a grand synthesis uniting neo-republican insights on freedom with Hegelian recognition theory. The result is an account of agency that arises from the idea of non-domination whose aim it is to safeguard individual freedom. When combined with Hegelian recognition theory a social focus also emerges. This amalgam comments on many of the major disputes concerning global justice from a cosmopolitan perspective. Because of the broad scope and the many contemporary discussions engaged this book will be of keen interest to scholars as well as a welcome addition to the classroom.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : A Republican Theory of (Global) Justice.- Chapter One: The Nature of Free Rational Agency
• Chapter Two: Analysing Freedom & Autonomy Recognition, Responsibility and Threats to Agency
• Chapter Three: Needs, Interests and Rights
• Chapter Four: Capabilities, Freedom and Sufficiency
• Chapter Five: Collective Agency, Democracy and Political Institutions
• Chapter Six: Global Justice and Non-Domination
• Conclusion: Freedom, Recognition & Non-Domination.

Author/Creator:

Schuppert, Fabian , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Freedom, recognition and non-domination: a republican theory of (global) justice [by Schuppert, F.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Freedom, Recognition and Non-Domination : A Republican Theory of (Global) Justice [by Schuppert, F.] (Dordrecht : Springer, ©2013 — ISBN 9789400768055)

Related Series:

Studies in global justice; v. 12

Subjects:

Political science — Philosophy

Recognition (International law)

Republicanism

Social justice

Political science

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 3, 2013).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 201 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JA71 .S387 2013eb

ISBNs:

9789400768062 (electronic bk.)
9400768060 (electronic bk.)
9789400768055 [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-94-007-6806-2

OCLC Numbers:

857810532