Equality and diversity: Value incommensurability and the politics of recognition (Policy Press Publications - Hardback Volumes Only)

This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism, existentialism, and elements of post-modernism and post-structuralism. These philosophies are applied to policy and practice debates, especially concerning disability issues, but also relating to gender and multiculturalism. It will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students across a range of social studies disciplines. (20120118) Equality and diversity......Page 2 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 Establishing the parameters of the equality and diversity debate......Page 17 Radical politics and universalism versus particularism......Page 20 Resolving the conflict between the values of equality and diversity......Page 24 Value incommensurability and celebrating difference......Page 31 Celebrating difference and justice as reciprocity......Page 35 Introduction......Page 44 Value incommensurability and ‘covering values’......Page 46 Values and quantity versus quality......Page 49 Objects and structure: the Platonic versus Nietzschean viewpoints......Page 51 Accidents, attachments and the creation of value or meaning......Page 54 Regret and incommensurability......Page 61 Value relativism and becoming attached......Page 64 Introduction......Page 72 Liberal egalitarian political philosophy and the perspective of others......Page 73 First- and second-order empathic imagination......Page 77 The separateness of persons and objective accounts of wellbeing......Page 80 Agency and surprise......Page 83 Learning from others who are agents: general implications for policy and practice......Page 88 Introduction......Page 96 Choice, responsibility and luck in liberal egalitarian theory......Page 97 The role of compassion and pity in theories of redistributive justice......Page 99 Liberal egalitarian teleology and well-being......Page 101 Well-being and luck revisited......Page 103 Luck, agency, separate persons and justice as reciprocity......Page 108 Keeping our distance in compassion-based social relations......Page 114 Introduction......Page 120 Reinterpretations of the medical model......Page 122 Reinterpretations of the social model......Page 125 Impairment as talent, and pain as disvalue and value......Page 130 Identity, human agency, struggle and oppression......Page 135 Selfhood, utilitarianism, value conflict and disability......Page 138 Introduction......Page 144 Kantian ethics: needs, rights and citizenship in policy and practice......Page 146 Nietzsche as a surprising ally of the disability rights movement......Page 150 From Kant to Nietzsche in more than one uneasy move......Page 155 Postmodernism and how irresolvable conflicts can be radical and dynamic......Page 159 Introduction......Page 166 The exaggerated divide between analytical and continental philosophy......Page 170 A bridge not too far between existentialists and value incommensurabilists......Page 174 Equality, diversity and incommensurable values......Page 176 Recognition and reciprocity in liberal egalitarian communities......Page 179 References......Page 188 Index......Page 200 Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism, existentialism, and elements of post-modernism and post-structuralism. These philosophies are applied to policy and practice debates, especially concerning disability issues, but also relating to gender and multiculturalism. It will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students across a range of social studies disciplines. "This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism, existentialism, and elements of post-modernism and post-structuralism. These philosophies are applied to policy and practice debates, especially concerning disability issues, but also relating to gender and multiculturalism. It will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students across a range of social studies disciplines."--Publisher's website. Equality, diversity and radical politics Value incommensurability Empathic imagination and its limits Critiquing compassion-based social relations Egalitarianism, disability and monistic ideals Equality, identity and disability Paradox and the limits of reason. This important book explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, and applying them to policy and practice debates