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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... argued that the standard commentaries on the texts provided only half the story. The social contract said to justify the government of the state was discussed and dissected but there was silence about the other dimension of the original ...
... argued in The Racial Contract that European expansionism and the establishment of white/nonwhite relations of domination could be seen as similarly constituting “race” as a structure of exclusion. So rather than being genuinely ...
... argued) was crucial for an understanding of what was at stake in theories of original contracts and their successors. Contract is seen as the practice which exemplifies freedom, but to appreciate why and how that claim can be made it is ...
... argued in my book on political obligation, and so do the institutions of (traditional) marriage and employment. Contractarians, or, at least, those who have the courage of their convictions, treat social life as nothing but contract all ...
... argued that the classic contract had both descriptive and normative aspirations. (“Descriptive” on a figural rather than literal level, of course.) I've picked up on and developed this theme by actually formally separating the ...