Linguistic Justice (eBook, ePUB)

Van Parijs and his Critics
Redaktion: De Schutter, Helder; Robichaud, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This unique collection - bringing together some of the most influential theorists engaged in the linguistic justice debate - presents a critical review of Philippe van Parijs' recent and influential theory of linguistic justice promoting English as a lingua franca at the global level, and the protection of vernacular languages through territorial separation at the local level.

This book was published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317292111
• Artikelnr.: 56962311

Autorenporträt

Helder De Schutter is Assistant Professor in Social and Political Philosophy at KU Leuven. In 2013-2014, he will be a visiting faculty member at Princeton University supported by a Fung Global Fellowship. He works on linguistic justice, federalism and nationalism. He has held positions at Princeton University, the University of Oxford (Nuffield College) and at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (Brussels). He is also a guest professor at Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve. Publications have appeared in journals like Inquiry, The Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, CRISPP, and Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. David Robichaud is Assistant Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Ottawa and a member of the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur la Normativité (GRIN). His research project "(Dis)trust in diverse societies" is financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has led to many publications. He also works on questions of social justice, his most recent publication on the subject being La juste part, an essay offering a new approach to questions of redistribution. The book was praised by the academic community, the media and the larger public and is in the process of being translated in English, Spanish and Cantonese. Finally, his work on linguistic justice has been published or accepted for publication in many journals and collective books, including most recently the Cambridge Companion to Language Policy (2012) and Philosophiques (2012). He is also co-editor of the online journal Ethics and Economics."

Inhaltsangabe

1. Van Parijsian linguistic justice - context, analysis and critiques 2. What is language? A response to Philippe van Parijs 3. The problem with English(es) and linguistic (in)justice. Addressing the limits of liberal egalitarian accounts of language 4. Lingua franca fever: sceptical remarks 5. Cooperative justice and English as a lingua franca: the tension between optimism and Anglophones free riding 6. Language, dignity, and territory 7. One-way conversation with Philippe Van Parijs 8. Can parity of self-esteem serve as the basis of the principle of linguistic territoriality? 9. The political value of languages 10. Lingua franca and linguistic territoriality. Why they both matter to justice and why justice matters for both