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Social Justice and the City is a book published in 1973 written by the Marxist geographer David Harvey.The book is an attempt to lay out afresh the paradigm of urban geography, by bringing together the two conflicting theses of methodology and philosophy. [1]
Frederick Joseph is an American author. He has written two The New York Times bestselling books,The Black Friend: on being a better white person, [1] a social justice book aimed at younger readers based on his own experiences as Black youth in Westchester County, New York and subsequent college years.
Social Justice in the Liberal State. Social Justice in the Liberal State [1] is a book written by Bruce A. Ackerman. [2] [3] The book is an essay in political philosophy, [2] a "new view" of the theoretical foundations of liberalism that will "challenge us to clarify our own implicit notions of liberal democracy."
The book includes critiques of legal positivism, interest-group politics, and the pursuit of social justice. Hayek argues that the pursuit of social justice leads to the loss of personal freedom, and he favors a common law approach to law. However, the book is not an easy read, and the second volume can be particularly heavy.
Miller's work has been subject to numerous criticisms and replies, for instance a special issue of the journal Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy on 'Nationalism and Global Justice – David Miller and His Critics' (Vol. 11, no. 4).
His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement, [38] [39] [40] and was the third most cited book in the social sciences as of 2016 according to Google Scholar.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014) is a memoir by American attorney Bryan Stevenson that documents his career defending disadvantaged clients. The book, focusing on injustices in the United States judicial system, alternates chapters between documenting Stevenson's efforts to overturn the wrongful conviction of Walter McMillian and his work on other cases, including children ...
The book presents a critique of John Rawls' theory of justice as fairness, as articulated in A Theory of Justice (1971). Sandel challenges Rawls' conception of the self and argues that liberal political philosophy inadequately accounts for the embeddedness of individuals in social and historical contexts.