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Paul Gomberg - How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice - 9781405160810 - V9781405160810
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How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice

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Description for How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice Hardback. This critical examination of racial equality takes a new approach to breaking down racial barriers by proposing a system of equal opportunity through shared labor and contributive justice. A discussion board for ideas and comments relating to the book can be found at: http://howtomakeopportunityequal. blogspot. com/. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 181 x 16. Weight in Grams: 516.
HOW TO MAKE OPPORTUNITY EQUAL

“Paul Gomberg makes a powerful and provocative case that real equality of opportunity can only be achieved by overturning the social division of labor that unfairly handicaps not just black but the working class in general.”
Charles W. Mills, University of Illinois at Chicago

“An important and original contribution to contemporary debates about justice in political philosophy; and accessible introduction to those debates for students and the lay reader; and a powerful and important challenge to policymakers, educators and employers, to think hard about their responsibilities for enabling people to lead flourishing lives.”... Read more

“In this impressive book, Paul Gomberg argues ardently, with great optimism, and with philosophical and sociological sophistication, for a radical new theory of egalitarian justice.”
David Copp, University of Florida

Distributive injustices such as low pay, inferior healthcare and housing, as well as diminished opportunities in school continue to blight the lives of millions of the urban poor in America and beyond.

This book announces a new theory of justice. Paul Gomberg:

  • focuses on how race and class structure unequal life prospects
  • shows how human society can be organized in a way that does not socialize children for lives of routine labor
  • maintains that true equality of opportunity comes only when all labor, both routine and complex, is shared
  • proposes a new paradigm for the theory of justice. While Rawls, Sen, Nozick, and Walzer conceive justice as addressing how various goods are fairly obtained or distributed, Gomberg argues that justice in distribution must advance contributive opportunities and duties.

On Gomberg’s contributive theory of justice, each person contributes to society not for individual material gain, but from a sense of what is required in order to build just relations with others.

Passionate and radical, but rigorously argued, this book makes a vital and original contribution to philosophy and social thought.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405160810
SKU
V9781405160810
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Paul Gomberg
Paul Gomberg is Professor of Philosophy at Chicago State University. He has published widely in political philosophy, the history of philosophy, and on race in journals such as Ethics, American Philosophical Quarterly, and The Journal of Social Philosophy. His writing reflects his experience as an anti-racist activist and teacher.

Reviews for How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice
“How to Make Opportunity Equal is a bold and principled attempt to grapple with the fundamental problem of justice in the modern world, and along the way manages to throw a great deal of light on the insidious character of modern racial categorizations.” (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 2009) "Gomberg writes in a hard-hitting, knowledgeable and engaging way about ... Read more

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