A General Theory of Domination and Justice

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ISBN: 9780199579419 | 0199579415
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Copyright: 7/15/2010

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In all societies, past and present, many persons and groups have been subject to domination. Properly understood, domination is a great evil, the suffering of which ought to be minimized so far as possible. Surprisingly, however, political and social theo

Frank Lovett is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis, and from 2008-2009 was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. His primary research concerns the role of freedom and domination in developing theories of justice, equality, and the rule of law. He teaches courses in political theory.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The project and its aims	p. 2
Why a theory of domination?	p. 6
Existing accounts of domination	p. 10
The general approach	p. 15
Descriptive Analysis
Social Relationships and Dependency	p. 25
The object and method of descriptive analysis	p. 26
Purposeful, rational, and reasonable action	p. 30
Social relationships	p. 34
Domination as structure	p. 40
Domination and dependency	p. 49
The Imbalance of Power Conception	p. 55
Strategies, preferences, and expectations	p. 56
Power in general	p. 64
Social power	p. 74
Power and domination	p. 82
Arbitrariness and Social Conventions	p. 85
Form-restricted conceptions	p. 85
The arbitrary power conception	p. 93
Social conventions	p. 101
Arbitrariness: procedural or substantive?	p. 111
The final definition of domination	p. 119
Normative Analysis
Domination and Human Flourishing	p. 127
The good of non-domination	p. 127
Is domination self-defeating?	p. 136
Domination and moral pluralism	p. 140
Consensual domination	p. 147
Addendum: non-domination and political liberty	p. 151
Domination and Justice	p. 157
The scope of social justice	p. 157
Justice as minimizing domination	p. 159
The argument for the conception	p. 165
Some technical refinements	p. 179
Final statement of the conception	p. 187
Applications of Minimizing Domination	p. 190
Distributive justice	p. 190
Toleration and accommodation	p. 203
Domination and democracy	p. 210
Realizing justice as minimizing domination	p. 220
Conclusion	p. 233
Historical Notes on "Domination"	p. 236
Formal Models of Domination	p. 239
Bibliography	p. 257
Index	p. 269
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