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The faces of injustice / (Record no. 212832)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 89021463
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780300056709 (Paperback )
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Original cataloging agency DLC
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Classification number JC578
Item number .S47 1990
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 340.11
Edition number 20
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Shklar, Judith N.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The faces of injustice /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Judith N. Shklar.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Haven :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Yale University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c1990.
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Extent vii, 144 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
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Price amount Rs. 2270.00
490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Storrs lectures on jurisprudence, Yale Law School ;
Volume/sequential designation 1988
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-138) and index.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Preface;<br/>Introduction;<br/>Giving injustice its due;<br/>Misfortunate and injustice;<br/>Notes;<br/>Index.
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Summary, etc. How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbor? In this book a distinguished political theorist ponders these and other questions and formulates a new political and moral theory of injustice that encompasses not only deliberate acts of cruelty or unfairness but also indifference to such acts.<br/> <br/>Judith N. Shklar draws on the writings of Plato, Augustine, and Montaigne, three skeptics who gave the theory of injustice its main structure and intellectual force, as well as on political theory, history, social psychology, and literature from sources as diverse as Rosseau, Dickens, Hardy, and E. L. Doctorow. Shklar argues that we cannot set rigid rules to distinguish instances of misfortune from injustice, as most theories of justice would have us do, for such definitions would not take into account historical variability and differences in perception and interest between the victims and spectators. From the victim's point of view—whether it be one who suffered in an earthquake or as a result of social discrimination—the full definition of injustice must include not only the immediate cause of disaster but also our refusal to prevent and then to mitigate the damage, or what Shklar calls passive injustice. With this broader definition comes a call for greater responsibility from both citizens and public servants. When we attempt to make political decisions about what to do in specific instances of injustice, says Shklar, we must give the victim's voice its full weight. This is in keeping with the best impulses of democracy and is our only alternative to a complacency that is bound to favor the unjust.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Justice.
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Storrs lectures on jurisprudence ;
Volume/sequential designation 1988.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification PB     . . General Stacks 09.10.2024 Purchased - Educational Supplies 2270.00 1 1 340.11 SHK 39840 25.06.2025 25.11.2024 09.10.2024 BOOKs Recommended by Dr. Manpreet Singh Dhillon