Justice and the Politics of Difference/
Young, Iris Marion
- Paperback reissue
- Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011.
- x, 286 p.
Introduction Chapter 1 Displacing the Distributive Paradigm The Distributive Paradigm The Distributive Paradigm Presupposes and Obscures Institutional Context Overextending the Concept of Distribution Problems with Talk of Distributing Power Defining Injustice as Domination and Oppression Chapter 2 Five Faces of Oppression Oppression as a Structural Concept The Concept of a Social Group The Faces of Oppression Applying the Criteria Chapter 3 Insurgency and the Welfare Capitalist Society Normative Principles of Welfare Capitalist Society The Depoliticization of Welfare Capitalist Society The Ideological Function of the Distributive Paradigm The Administered Society and New Forms of Domination Insurgency and the Repoliticization of Public Life The Dialectic of Recontainment versus Democracy Democracy as a Condition of Social Justice Chapter 4 The Ideal of Impartiality and the Civic Public Postmodernist Critique of the Logic of Identity The Ideal of Impartiality as Denying Difference The Impossibility of Impartiality The Logic of Identity in the Ideal of the Civic Public Ideological Functions of the Ideal of Impartiality Participatory Democracy and the Idea of a Heterogeneous Public Chapter 5 The Scaling of Bodies and the Politics of Identity The Scaling of Bodies in Modern Discourse Conscious Acceptance, Unconscious Aversion Behavioral Nonrw of Respectability Xenophobia and Abjection Moral Responsibility and Unintended Action Justice and Cultural Revolution Chapter 6 Social Movements and the Politics of Difference Competing Paradigms of Liberation Emancipation through the Politics of Difference Reclaiming the Meaning of Difference Respecting Difference in Policy The Heterogeneous Public and Group Represenation Chapter 7 Affirmative Action and the Myth of Merit Affirmative Action and the Principle of Nondiscrimination Affirmative Action Discussion and the Distributive Paradigm The Myth ofMerit Education and Testing as Performance Proxies The Politics of Qualijications Oppression and the Social Division of Labor The Democratic Division of Labor Chapter 8 City Life and Difference The Opposition between Individualism and Community The Rousseauist Dream Privileging Face-to-Face Relations Undesirable Political Consequences of the Ideal of Community City Life as a Normative Ideal Cities and Social Injustice Empowerment without Autonomy