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.