A taxonomy of injustice

Duncan Ivison

doi:10.4324/9781032676159

A taxonomy of injustice

Duncan Ivison

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Abstract

There are two claims I explore in this chapter. First, that a sense of injustice is more immediate and tangible than a sense of jus- tice. And second, that cruelty and injustice, rather than justice, should be our starting point for legal and political theorizing about liberalism. Call these two claims, combined, the asymmetry thesis. Adopting this perspective has become an increasingly influential way of thinking about the nature of justice and liberalism, as we’ll see. But what kind of injustice? Whose injustice?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Law, Politics and Responding to Injustice
Editors	Coel Kirby, Wojciech Sadurski, Kevin Walton
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	2
Pages	30-50
ISBN (Electronic)	9781032676159
ISBN (Print)	978-1-032-67611-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032676159
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2025

Keywords

injustice
justice
liberalism
republicanism
democracy

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2 Chapter
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Histories of liberalisms
Ivison, D., 9 May 2024, Research Handbook on Liberalism. Ivison, D. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 62-78 17 p.
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Introduction: the vicissitudes of liberalism
Ivison, D., 9 May 2024, Research Handbook on Liberalism. Ivison, D. (ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, p. 1-28 28 p.
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Open Access
Democratic Trust and Injustice
Ivison, D., 1 Feb 2023, In: Journal of Social and Political Philosophy. 2, 1, p. 78-94
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A taxonomy of injustice

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Histories of liberalisms

Introduction: the vicissitudes of liberalism

Democratic Trust and Injustice

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