Constitutive Justice

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and Everybody Came?

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   Pages 1-11

3. The Scope and Scale of Justice

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   Pages 12-38

4. Reservations about Constitutive Justice

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   Pages 39-69

5. Constitutive Justice — A Paradox?

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6. Justice between Communitarianism and Cosmopolitanism

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   Pages 90-117

7. Four Transcommunal Approaches

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8. Constituents of a Theory

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9. Toward a Theory of Constitutive Justice

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10. Back Matter

    Pages 232-263

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Both classical and modern accounts of justice largely overlook the question of how the communities within which justice applies are constituted in the first place. This book addresses that problem, arguing that we need to accord a place to the theory of 'constitutive justice' alongside traditional categories of distributive and commutative justice.

• Justice
• Distributive
• Constitutive
• Membership
• Boundaries
• Borders
• Ethics
• Communitarianism
• constitution
• migration
• political philosophy

• The Catholic University of America, USA

  William A. Barbieri

William A. Barbieri Jr. is Associate Professor of Religious Ethics and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Ethics of Citizenship: Immigration and Group Rights in Germany (Duke, 1998), co-editor of From Just War to Modern Peace Ethics (De Gruyter, 2012; with Heinz-Gerhard Justenhoven), and editor of At the Limits of the Secular: Reflections on Faith and Public Life (Eerdmans, 2014).

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