Les théories de la justice: une introduction

by Will Kymlicka, Marc Saint-Upéry (Translator)

Les théories de la justice et les débats qu’elles suscitent au sein du monde intellectuel anglo-saxon restent encore mal connus en France. Pourtant, ce courant de la philosophie politique constitue un apport essentiel pour tous ceux qui veulent réfléchir sur des thèmes aussi importants et actuels que l’égalité sociale et la redistribution des biens, la liberté et la propriété individuelles, le rapport entre individu et communauté, l’égalité entre les hommes et les femmes, l’avenir de l’État-providence. L’ouvrage de Will Kymlicka constitue une introduction passionnante à ces enjeux qui nourrissent le débat politique et intellectuel dans les démocraties contemporaines. Clair et pédagogique, cet ouvrage de synthèse, écrit par un philosophe reconnu, constitue un outil précieux pour ceux qui voudront aborder les textes de John Rawls, Charles Taylor ou Michael Walzer, devenus des classiques de la théorie politique.

Genres: Philosophy

366 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1992

About the author

Will Kymlicka received his B.A. in philosophy and politics from Queen's University in 1984, and his D.Phil. in philosophy from Oxford University in 1987. He is the author of seven books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002),Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Assocation, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998), Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship (2001), Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity (2007), which was awarded the North American Society for Social Philosophy’s 2007 Book Award, and Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights (2011), co-authored with Sue Donaldson, which was awarded the 2013 Biennial Book Prize from the Canadian Philosophical Association

He is also the editor of Justice in Political Philosophy (Elgar, 1992), and The Rights of Minority Cultures (OUP, 1995), co-editor with Ian Shapiro of Ethnicity and Group Rights (NYU, 1997), co-editor with Wayne Norman of Citizenship in Diverse Societies (OUP, 2000), co-editor with Simone Chambers of Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society (PUP, 2001), co-editor with Magda Opalski of Can Liberal Pluralism Be Exported? (OUP, 2001), co-editor with Alan Patten of Language Rights and Political Theory (OUP, 2003), co-editor with Baogang He of Multiculturalism in Asia (OUP, 2005), co-editor with Keith Banting of Multiculturalism and the Welfare State: Recognition and Redistribution in Contemporary Democracies (OUP, 2006), co-edior with William M. Sullivan of The Globalization of Ethics: Religious and Secular Perspectives (Cambridge UP, 2007), and co-editor (with Bashir Bashir) of The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies (OUP, 2008), co-editor with Avigail Eisenberg of Identity Politics in the Public Realm: Bringing Institutions Back In (UBC Press, 2011), co-editor with Kathryn Walker of Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World (UBC Press, 2012), and co-editor with Eva Pfostl of Multiculturalism and Minority Rights in the Arab World (OUP, 2014).

He is currently the Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen's University, and a visiting professor in the Nationalism Studies program at the Central European University in Budapest. His works have been translated into 32 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. From 2004-6, he was the President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.

Reviews

[René · Rating 2 out of 5]

Un titre plus approprié pour ce livre, écrit en 1990, aurait été "théories de la justice chez les philosophes occidentaux contemporains". Car malheureusement, comme dans la plupart des oeuvres philosophiques, on se restreint à un seul courant de pensées (ici, la pensée judéo-chrétienne occidentale), comme si les philosophies asiatiques ou autres ne pourraient pas avoir de théories tout autant valides, sinon davantage. De tendance libérale, l'auteur, pourtant très érudit, semble également ne pas pouvoir anticiper que la pensée dominante pourrait également connaitre des reculs - comme les tendances féministes lourdement attaquées, ou simplement dénigrées et ignorées, en ce début du XXIe siècle, par les tendances réactionnaires religieuses, que celles-ci soient néo-chrétiennes ou musulmanes.