This book presents an original theory of justice, which combines Hegelian recognition theory and republican ideas of freedom, and applies this hybrid theory to the global domain.

This book offers an original account of a distinctly republican theory of social and global justice. The book starts by exploring the nature and value of Hegelian recognition theory. It shows the importance of that theory for grounding a normative account of free and autonomous agency. It is this normative account of free agency which provides the groundwork for a republican conception of social and global justice, based on the core-ideas of freedom as non-domination and autonomy as non-alienation. As the author argues, republicans should endorse a sufficientarian account of social justice, which focuses on the nature of social relationships and their effects on people's ability to act freely and realize their fundamental interests. On the global level, the book argues for the cosmopolitan extension of the republican principles of non-domination and non-alienation within a multi-level democratic system. In so doing, the book addresses a major gap in the existing literature, presenting an original theory of justice, which combines Hegelian recognition theory and republican ideas of freedom, and applying this hybrid theory to the global domain.

Is the first to offer a truly republican theory of social justice Offers a comprehensive alternative to the dominant Rawlsian approaches to social and global justice Sharpens our understanding of the nature and value of freedom and equality Provides a unique extension of republican ideas and recognition theory to the global domain? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

Acknowledgments.- Introduction - A Republican Theory of (Global) Justice.- Chapter One: The Nature of Free Rational Agency.- Chapter Two: Analysing Freedom & Autonomy Recognition, Responsibility and Threats to Agency.- Chapter Three: Needs, Interests and Rights.- Chapter Four: Capabilities, Freedom and Sufficiency.- Chapter Five: Collective Agency, Democracy and Political Institutions.- Chapter Six: Global Justice and Non-Domination.- Conclusion: Freedom, Recognition & Non-Domination.- Bibliography.- Index.