The Contract and DominationJohn Wiley & Sons, 23. 4. 2013. - 320 страница Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned altogether. Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, contract theory has once again become central to the Western political tradition. But gender justice is neglected and racial justice almost completely ignored. Carole Pateman and Charles Mills's earlier books, The Sexual Contract (1988) and The Racial Contract (1997), offered devastating critiques of gender and racial domination and the contemporary contract tradition's silence on them. Both books have become classics of revisionist radical democratic political theory. Now Pateman and Mills are collaborating for the first time in an interdisciplinary volume, drawing on their insights from political science and philosophy. They are building on but going beyond their earlier work to bring the sexual and racial contracts together. In Contract and Domination, Pateman and Mills discuss their differences about contract theory and whether it has a useful future, excavate the (white) settler contract that created new civil societies in North America and Australia, argue via a non-ideal contract for reparations to black Americans, confront the evasions of contemporary contract theorists, explore the intersections of gender and race and the global sexual-racial contract, and reply to their critics. This iconoclastic book throws the gauntlet down to mainstream white male contract theory. It is vital reading for anyone with an interest in political theory and political philosophy, and the systems of male and racial domination. |
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... Rawls's A Theory of Justice in 1971 — it has once again become extraordinarily widespread. But nobody had sought before to relate the numerous studies of sexism and racism either to classic theories of an original contract or to ...
... Rawls's difference principle raises questions about class, the original debate in the secondary literature did at least deal to some extent with issues of economic distribution. But with Rawls's shift to the more metatheoretical terrain ...
... Rawls's apparatus of the veil of ignorance that blocks crucial knowledge from us can be adapted to the different task of determining rectificatory justice. In this revisionist Rawlsianism, the range of societies among which we must ...
... Rawls's phrase) a “device of representation” for getting at what those rules are. So the contract is in fact quite dispensable, as various critics of Rawls pointed out fairly early on. (Similarly, Kant's hypothetical contractualism ...
... Rawls and Thomas Scanlon is centered on what principles we should choose to regulate society given this overriding commitment to respecting others' personhood. I don't see why this kind of contract isn't perfectly defensible in ...