The Idea of Justice
/Amartya Sen
- Cambridge, MA Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2009
- xxviii, 467 p. ; 23 cm
Includes index
Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how - and how well - people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left practical realities far behind
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