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What is Structural Injustice?
294 pages, Hardcover
Published March 11, 2024
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August 10, 2026
What Is Structural Injustice? offers an important and timely examination of one of the most challenging concepts in contemporary political philosophy and social ethics. Bringing together perspectives from Jude Browne, Maeve McKeown, and other contributors, the collection looks beyond individual actions to consider the broader structures, institutions, and social arrangements through which injustice can emerge and persist. The subject makes the book particularly relevant to readers trying to understand how seemingly ordinary systems can produce deeply unequal outcomes.
A major strength of the book is the opportunity to examine structural injustice as a philosophical problem rather than simply treating it as a political slogan. The questions surrounding responsibility, agency, inequality, and institutional structures invite readers to think more carefully about how injustice operates and what meaningful responses might require. For students and scholars of political philosophy, ethics, feminist philosophy, and social theory, the collection provides valuable material for examining these questions from multiple perspectives.
The book should appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between individual responsibility and the larger social conditions in which people live. Its interdisciplinary relevance also gives it potential beyond philosophy departments, particularly among readers studying politics, law, sociology, and social justice. What Is Structural Injustice? is a thoughtful contribution to an ongoing conversation about how we identify injustice, understand its causes, and determine what obligations individuals and institutions may have in addres
A major strength of the book is the opportunity to examine structural injustice as a philosophical problem rather than simply treating it as a political slogan. The questions surrounding responsibility, agency, inequality, and institutional structures invite readers to think more carefully about how injustice operates and what meaningful responses might require. For students and scholars of political philosophy, ethics, feminist philosophy, and social theory, the collection provides valuable material for examining these questions from multiple perspectives.
The book should appeal to anyone interested in the relationship between individual responsibility and the larger social conditions in which people live. Its interdisciplinary relevance also gives it potential beyond philosophy departments, particularly among readers studying politics, law, sociology, and social justice. What Is Structural Injustice? is a thoughtful contribution to an ongoing conversation about how we identify injustice, understand its causes, and determine what obligations individuals and institutions may have in addres
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