Research Catalog

Title

Ideas that matter : democracy, justice, rights / edited by Debra Satz and Annabelle Lever.

Publication

• Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Satz, Debra
• Lever, Annabelle

Description

x, 268 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The essays in this volume take off from themes in the work of eminent philosopher and political scientist Joshua Cohen. Cohen is a deeply influential thinker who has written on deliberative democracy, freedom of expression, Rawlsian theory, global justice, and human rights. The essays gathered here both engage with Cohen's work and expand upon it, embodying his commitment to the idea that analytical work by philosophers and social scientists matters to our shared public life and to democracy itself. The contributors offer novel perspectives on pressing issues of public policy from accountability for sexual violence to exploitation in international trade.0The volume is organized around three central ideas. The first concerns democracy, specifically how we can improve collective decision-making both by elucidating our normative principles and enacting institutional changes. The second idea centers on how we confront injustice, investigating the role of emotions, social norms, and culture in democratic politics and public discussion. The final section explores how we develop political principles and values in an interdependent world, one in which theories of justice and forms of cooperation are increasingly extending beyond the state. The principle uniting this collection is that ideas matter-they can guide us in understanding how to confront difficult global problems such as the fragility of democratic institutions, the place of sovereignty in a globalizing world, and the persistence of racial injustice.

Subjects

• Human rights
• 08.45 political philosophy
• Democracy
• Globalization
• Sovereignty
• Cohen, Joshua, 1951-
• Civil rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Debra Satz -- Saving democracy from ourselves : democracy as a tragedy of the commons / Archon Fung -- Collective reason or individual liberty : deliberative democracy and the protection of individual rights / Assaf Sharon -- Rousseau and the meaning of popular sovereignty / Stuart White -- Without the loving strains of commitment / Christopher Lebron -- Deliberation and university governance : the case of Brown University's diversity and inclusion plan / Richard Locke -- Accountability in an era of celebrity / Martha Nussbaum -- Exploitation in international trade / Helena De Bres -- Sovereignty and complex interdependence : some surprising implications of their compatibility / Charles Sabel -- Toward a political philosophy of human rights / Annabelle Lever -- Afterword / Joshua Cohen -- Publications of Joshua Cohen.

Call Number

JFE 20-220

ISBN

• 9780190904951
• 019090495X

LCCN

2018049121

OCLC

1080546604

Title

Ideas that matter : democracy, justice, rights / edited by Debra Satz and Annabelle Lever.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Satz, Debra, editor.

Lever, Annabelle, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019 9780190904968 (DLC) 2018061769

Research Call Number

JFE 20-220