Christine Sypnowich is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada. She is the author of The Concept of Socialist Law (Oxford, 1990), and editor (with David Bakhurst) of The Social Self (Sage, 1995), and The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G.A. Cohen (Oxford, 2006). Her work has appeared in such journals as Political Theory, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, New Left Review and Politics and Society.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Challenges to Equality

Chapter 1: Beyond DifferenceChapter 2: Race, Culture and the Egalitarian Conscience

Chapter 3: Androgyny and Girl Power, Sex, Equality and Human Goods

Part II: Liberal Revisionism

Chapter 4: Impartiality, Difference and Wellbeing

Chapter 5: Equality and the Antinomies of Multicultural Liberalism

Part III: Equality and Living WellChapter 6: What Equality Is and Is Not

Chapter 7: Human Flourishing and the Use and Abuse of Equality

Chapter 8: Autonomy and Living Well

Chapter 9: Equality and the Public Good: Global and Local

Chapter 10: Cosmopolitans, Cosmopolitanism and Human Flourishing

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

How should we approach the daunting task of renewing the ideal of equality? In this book, Christine Sypnowich proposes a theory of equality centred on human flourishing, living well, or wellbeing.