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Equality

Equality

Equality
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Equality Paperback - 2006 - 1st Edition

by White, Stuart

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  • Title Equality
  • Author White, Stuart
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity, CAMBRIDGE, UK
  • Publication date 2006-12-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0745627749
  • ISBN 9780745627748 / 0745627749
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 6.38 x 0.6 in (21.59 x 16.21 x 1.52 cm)
  • Size 5.40x0.60x8.50
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects Equality
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number HM146
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305
  • Quantity available 10

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Reader reviews for Equality

From the publisher

The demand for equality is central to modern politics. But what exactly do we mean by equality? Does it threaten other important values? Is it a demand we should support or question?

This highly accessible book provides an engaging introduction to the concept of equality and to the debates, historical and contemporary, that surround it. It explains and critically considers how the demand for equality arises in different spheres.

In the political sphere, it explores the relationship between equality and democracy. In the economic and social spheres, it explores the ideal of meritocracy and more radical theories of egalitarian justice developed in the works of John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin. In the legal sphere, the book discusses the challenges that feminism and multiculturalism pose to conventional conceptions of equal citizenship.

It concludes with an examination of whether equality should go global, and by analyzing contemporary arguments for and against the continuing relevance of equality to the political life of affluent democracies. Throughout, the book considers the tensions internal to the demand for equality and between equality and other important values such as liberty and efficiency.

Drawing on political philosophy, sociology and the history of political thought, the book will be of interest to students and researchers in philosophy and the social sciences and anyone interested in the values that animate democratic political life.

From the rear cover

The demand for equality is central to modern politics. But what exactly do we mean by equality? Does it threaten other important values? Is it a demand we should support or question?

This highly accessible book provides an engaging introduction to the concept of equality and to the debates, historical and contemporary, that surround it. It explains and critically considers how the demand for equality arises in different spheres. In the political sphere, it explores the relationship between equality and democracy. In the economic and social spheres, it explores the ideal of meritocracy and more radical theories of egalitarian justice developed in the works of John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin. In the legal sphere, the book discusses the challenges that feminism and multiculturalism pose to conventional conceptions of equal citizenship. It concludes with an examination of whether equality should go global, and by analyzing contemporary arguments for and against the continuing relevance of equality to the political life of affluent democracies. Throughout, the book considers the tensions internal to the demand for equality and between equality and other important values such as liberty and efficiency.

Drawing on political philosophy, sociology and the history of political thought, the book will be of interest to students and researchers in philosophy and the social sciences and anyone interested in the values that animate democratic political life.

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2007, Page 172

About the author

Stuart White is Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Jesus College, Oxford.
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