Naomi Zack

Reviving the Social Compact

Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Zack addresses current upheavals with a new conception of the relationship between citizens and government. Analyzing current states of race, class, gender, and other measures of social wellbeing, Zack promotes a new social compact whereincitizens as a whole make long-term resolutions outside of government institutions to ensure stability.

Produktdetails

• Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy Nr.2
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9781538120125
• ISBN-10: 1538120127
• Artikelnr.: 53216184

Autorenporträt

Naomi Zack is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is author of White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide (R&L 2015), The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (R&L 2011), Ethics for Disaster (R&L 2009), and Philosophy of Science and Race (Routledge 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Ruth Sample Author's Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction
Part I - Politics, Race, Class, and Feminism 1. Turbo-Charged Politics 2.
The Junction of Race 3. The Political Creation of Class 4. The Amazing
Success of Feminism Part II -- The Need for the Social Compact 5. The
Social Contract and the Social Compact 6. Natural Disaster in Society 7.
Unnatural Disaster in Nature 8. Homelessness and Monetization 9.
Immigration and Expulsion Conclusion Index