Review
The book is a kind of a long-winded review of theories of justice, mainly critiquing justice as a consequence of just institutions (structures) in favour of social dialogue (agency of individual-collectives). Tends to situate justice in a relational manner as a dynamic outcome of institutional design engaging over time with people’s agency. For a good review that develops the idea that the book tends to be repetitive, lacks Asian grounding (save for the Niti-Nyaya contrast), limited examples and lack of “new” ideas that have not been said before (often by Sen himself), see Sridhar’s review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/226550984?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
Reading status
- Status: Read
- My rating: 3 ⭐⭐⭐
- Date started / added: 2011/11/07
- Date finished: 2019/11/19
Metadata
- Author: Amartya Sen
- Year: 2009.0
- ISBN13: =“9780141037851”
- Shelves (Goodreads): science-and-philosophy
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