On Justice

Mathias Risse is Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration and Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research primarily addresses questions of global justice ranging from human rights, inequality, taxation, trade, and immigration to climate change and the future of technology. He has also worked on issues in ethics, decision theory, and 19th century German philosophy. Risse is the author of On Global Justice (2012), Global Political Philosophy (2012), and On Trade Justice: A Philosophical Plea for a New Global Deal (with Gabriel Wollner, 2019).

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Apologia for Justice; Part I. Political Philosophy: 2. Political Philosophy as a Vocation: Seven Approaches; 3. Political Philosophy as a Vocation: Seven Approaches, Continued; 4. Global Thought: Political Philosophy in the World Society; 5. Global Thought: World Society, Cultural Imperialism, White Ignorance; 6. Half a Century after Malcolm X Came to Visit: Reflections on the Thin Presence of African Thought in Global Justice Debates; Part II. Distributive Justice: 7. Distributive Justice and the Great Tale of Humanity; 8. Origins; 9. Antiquity and Beyond; 10. Approaching the Present; 11. Global Justice; 12. Pluralist Internationalism; Part III. The Grounds of Justice: Philosophical Foundations: 13. Engaging Immanuel Kant and Ernst Tugendhat; 14. Value, Stringency, and the Frame-of-Human-Life Conception of the Political; 15. The Ontology of Grounds of Justice: Elaboration and Comparisons; 16. Grounds of Justice and Public Reason, Domestic and Global; 17. Duties of Justice; Epilogue on Justice, Politics, and the Meaning of Life: Confronting Carl Schmitt; Bibliography; Index.