The Concept of Injustice

Heinze, Eric

ISBN 10: 0415634792 / ISBN 13: 9780415634793

Published by Routledge, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Concept of Injustice
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415634792
• ISBN 13: 9780415634793
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This book insists upon a re-thinking of Western theories of Justice. For 2500 years, philosophers have subordinated the concept of injustice to the concept of justice, as if injustice were only a secondary, derivative notion. This book summons literary classics, notably Shakespeare, to argue that injustice, not justice, should be the focus of our attention. A long line of thinkers, from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant, Hegel, Marx and Rawls, have overlooked the central problems of injustice. The book identifies two elements – unity and measurement – that are constantly assumed to be essential to justice. It shows how, in landmark literary classics, it is precisely those two elements that end up generating injustice. Western justice theory, it is concluded, cannot advance until it takes a new approach to the concept and the realities of injustice.

About the Author

Eric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities at Queen Mary, London