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Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency
Why should states matter and how do relations between fellow-citizens affect what is owed to distant strangers? How, if at all, can demanding egalitarian principles inform political action in the real world? This book proposes a novel solution through the concept of avant-garde political agency. Lea Ypi grounds egalitarian principles on claims arising from conflicts over the distribution of global positional goods, and illustrates the role of avant-garde agents in shaping these conflicts and promoting democratic political transformations in response to them. Against statists, she defends the global scope of equality, and derives remedial cosmopolitan principles from global responsibilities to relieve absolute deprivation. Against cosmopolitans, she shows that associative political relations play an essential role and that blanket condemnation of the state is unnecessary and ill-directed. Advocating an approach to global justice whereby domestic avant-garde agents intervene politically so as to constrain and motivate fellow-citizens to support cosmopolitan transformations, Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency offers a fresh and nuanced example of political theory in an activist mode. Setting the contemporary debate on global justice in the context of recent methodological disputes on the relationship between ideal and nonideal theorizing, Ypi's dialectical account illustrates how principles and agency can genuinely interact.
Book Details
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publish Date: Mar 2nd, 2012
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.30in - 6.10in - 0.90in - 1.15lb
- EAN: 9780199593873
- Categories: • History & Theory - General• International Relations - General• Political
About the Author
Lea Ypi is Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuttfield College, Oxford University. She is interested in theories of justice, citizenship, the philosophy of the Enlightenment (especially Kant), and the intellectual history of the Balkans. Her work has appeared in, among others, in The Journal of Political Philosophy, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Politics Philosophy and Economics, The Review of Politics, Political Studies, Ratio, Kantian Review.
Praise for this book
"This book is a terrific contribution to the literature on global justice. In fact, it is one of the most exciting contributions to the field in recent years... The book weaves together difficult ideas in a (for the most part) clear way. It draws connections that are often unexpected, but just for that reason is highly illuminating. Every chapter is well-organized and presents a highly intelligent train of thought. This book deserves to be widely read and studied, and will richly repay any efforts invested in it." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"...Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency makes for more than worthwhile reading. Readers who wish to familiarize themselves with the current state of play in the global justice debate will find what they seek here." --The Review of Politics
"...Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency makes for more than worthwhile reading. Readers who wish to familiarize themselves with the current state of play in the global justice debate will find what they seek here." --The Review of Politics