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Justice and the Politics of Difference Paperback – September 11, 2011

by Iris Young (Author), Danielle Allen (Foreword)

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In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements about decision making, cultural expression, and division of labor--that were created by marginal and excluded groups, including women, African Americans, and American Indians, as well as gays and lesbians. Iris Young defines concepts of domination and oppression to cover issues eluding the distributive model. Democratic theorists, according to Young do not adequately address the problem of an inclusive participatory framework. By assuming a homogeneous public, they fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms of reason and respectability. Young urges that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group difference. Basing her vision of the good society on the differentiated, culturally plural network of contemporary urban life, she argues for a principle of group representation in democratic publics and for group-differentiated policies.

Danielle Allen's new foreword contextualizes Young's work and explains how debates surrounding social justice have changed since--and been transformed by--the original publication of Justice and the Politics of Difference.

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Winner of the 1991 Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association

Young has written an extremely important book, articulating a position which challenges theorists of justice from Plato to Rawls.---Andrew Murphy, Journal of Politics

This is a superb book which opens up many new vistas for theorists of justice. Young makes a number of insightful arguments both about the issues that need to be addressed by a theory of justice, and about the kind of theory capable of addressing them.---Will Kymlicka, Canadian Philosophical Reviews

With remarkable precision and clarity, Young constructs a 'pluralized' account of oppression, aiming to describe all the groups and all the ways they are oppressed. (Signs)

"This is an innovative work, an important contribution to feminist theory and political thought, and one of the most impressive statements of the relationship between postmodernist critiques of universalism and concrete thinking.... Iris Young makes the most convincing case I know of for the emancipatory implications of postmodernism."―Seyla Benhabib, Yale University

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"This is an innovative work, an important contribution to feminist theory and political thought, and one of the most impressive statements of the relationship between postmodernist critiques of universalism and concrete thinking.... Iris Young makes the most convincing case I know of for the emancipatory implications of postmodernism."--Seyla Benhabib, Yale University

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Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press; Revised ed. edition (September 11, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0691152624
ISBN-13: 978-0691152622
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,882 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #872 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Gender Studies > General
- #1174 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Political

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John Duff

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October 7, 2017

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A wonderful critique of the inherent problems with justice theories. Young demonstrates how contemporary theories of justice focus too narrowly on distribution, thereby diminishing the impact of oppression and domination perpetuated by institutions. Thus, justice ought to encompass a wider scope of social phenomena. Young, then, argues that impartial normative morality assumed in contemporary justice theories is impossible, due to the lack of capturing difference among communities and individuals. City Life is Young's suggestion for capturing difference and celebrating the fact of communal and individual partiality. This is a fantastic entering wedge into the underlying assumptions of contemporary justice theory, demonstrating that the debate is far from over.

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Paul E CriderTop Contributor: Philosophy

whatever) have a better understanding of their issues than the activists she believes ...

December 30, 2016

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Iris Marion Young is by turns insightful and naive. The central thrust of her work is that justice should be understood not as a question of how to distribute wealth or other quantities, but as overcoming oppression and domination. Oppression is constraining an individual's development, through exploitation, marginalization, violence, cultural imperialism, or powerlessness (the five faces of oppression). Domination is preventing an individual from participating in determining their own actions and the rules constraining those actions. In general I think this is the right way to think about justice. It gets at what really matters, rather than chasing some phantom of distributive equality which wouldn't even guarantee improvements in the lives of those most disadvantaged.

Unfortunately, Young has a romantic vision of democracy that fails to acknowledge any strong criticism of the democratic process. Her arguments against expertise are interesting, but at the end of the day scientists (nuclear, biological, whatever) have a better understanding of their issues than the activists she believes they should have an equal stage with. Reading her chapter on democratic participation made me think she would almost certainly support anti-vaccine movements, in addition to any number of dubious causes.

Despite her astute analysis of the dangers of zealous zoning regulations and the benefits of city life, she nonetheless envisions an economic system ruled by committee. Her statements about regional governance knowing better than private actors whether and where to build, say, new shopping malls suggests she's never even considered the socialist calculation problem posed by libertarians. In general her refreshingly original ideas would be better served if she had a more mainstream and less leftist understanding of economics. That said, there is much to learn from the book.

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October 18, 2013

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Those of you familiar with Young's exemplary thinking and insight will not be disappointed. This book was used as part of a course, and well received by students.

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Dan R

I actually read this.

October 29, 2015

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Most of it anyway.

Actually just a few excerpts.

Pretty good.

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E. M. Dale

This is the conversation we need to have

December 25, 2000

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Young's clasic book is most often read in seminars on social criticism and/or feminist studies. This is as it should be, for Young's work brilliantly illuminates the direction debates about justice and oppressed groups must go. However, I read the book from the point of view of the work of Warnke, Habermas, and Gadamer, more along the lines of hermeneutics and ideology critique. What I found was an absolutely riviting account of how we define the groups to which we belong, how we believe those groups interact with each other, and the way that the competing demands of these groups are met and dealt with. As Warnke does, Young realigns the concept of justice along a communitarian axis rather than an individualistic axis, proposing that we look at justice in terms of communitites than individuals. Only in this way will the individuals within those communities be able to come to the table with their respective concerns. Like Habermas, she investigates the rhetoric of power that underlies old ways of discussing justice in terms of distribution, denying that justice is a finite commodity that must be rationed. And like Gadamer, Young stresses the need for an understanding of presuppositions in developing theories of history and interpretation. After all, how we define "our" group in great part determines how we define "others".
I found her turn from a rural to an urban paradigm of community to be nothing short of revolutionary. She develops an idea of community-oriented justice that revolves not around the model of self-suffient hamlets, but around the interlocking and often messy communities that exist side-by-side (though often in isolation from each other) in cities. Showing that the idea of self-sufficiency is unworkable in the curent context, Young holds out hope that these interconnected yet distinct communities will show us the way to not only survive but flourish in the postmodern world. Justice does not compete with difference; it grows out of it.
An excellent study, it should be read by any and all, though the jargon cannot help but be technical at times. I agree with the previous reviewer, a good second-year book for students of social work, religion, philosophy, education, or politics, and a great any-time book for anyone concerned with issues of justice in the world today.

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Ignore the silly reviews (here on Amazon) that attempt to pigeon-hole this work as somehow relevant ONLY if one believes the principles of radical feminism.Read more

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