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Marek Hrubec is a Senior Research Fellow at the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Global Studies Association of North America. He has authored and edited many texts, including Africa in a Multilateral World (co-ed. Routledge, 2022).

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Towards Justice **seeks to address the tensions of global social misrecognition and injustice.**

The book is based on a critique of liberal and libertarian contradictions with their conflictual consequences, and analyses of critical social theories and perspectives from the Global South (Latin America, Africa, and Asia), as well as the Global North. Hrubec deals with the dispute over particular and universal norms on local, regional, and global levels, extra-territorial social recognition of the global poor, strategic socialism, threats of global hegemony, authoritarianism, and war in light of various conflicts.

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Acknowledgements

List of Tables

About Towards Justice

Introduction

Part 1
Founding a Critical Theory
1 Social Critique
1 Internal Social Criticism

2 The Trichotomy of Critique, Explanation, and Normativity

3 External Social Criticism

2 Critical Methods
1 Transdisciplinary Approaches

2 The Realism of Societal Development

3 Structures, Actors, and Processes in History

Part 2
Development of Critical Theory
3 The Programme of Critical Theory
1 Horkheimer’s Foundations

2 Marcuse’s Foundations

3 Adorno and Horkheimer’s Redefinition

4 Critical Paradigms
1 Work and Eros

2 Communication and Recognition

3 Global Interactions

Part 3
Limits of Liberal Liberty
5 Deficits of National Liberty
1 Inadequacies of Public Reason

2 Problems of Individualism and Instrumental Reason

3 Shortcomings of Redistribution

4 Marginalisation of Redistribution and the Problem of Ownership

6 Deficits of International Liberty
1 An Inadequate Relationship between an Individual and Community

2 Comparison of the Principles of Justice
 2.1 Principles of International Justice in a Theory of Justice

 2.2 Principles of International Justice in the Law of Peoples

 2.3 Principles Which Regulate Relations between Individuals within the National Framework in a Theory of Justice

3 Shortcomings of International Redistribution

4 Unsustainability of Liberal International Order

Part 4
Experience of Recognition
7 Dilemmas of Local Recognition
1 The Crystallisation of Recognition

2 From the Private Sphere to the Public Sphere

3 Political Public Sphere

4 Recognition of Equality and Difference

8 Dilemmas of Transnational Recognition
1 Interstate Recognition

2 Transcending Interstate Recognition

3 Transnational Recognition

4 Macro-regional Interactions

Part 5
Global Perspectives of Justice
9 Intercultural Polylogue: Cultural and Political Justice
1 Intercultural and Civilizational Polylogue

2 Dispute on the Universalism of Human Rights

3 Plurality of Cultures and Civilizations

4 Common Norms for Humanity

10 Extraterritorial, Strategic, and Global Interactions: Social, Economic, and Security Justice
1 An Identification of the Misrecognized Subjects

2 Extraterritorial Recognition: Regulation of the Economy

3 Transformative Revolution and Strategic Structures

4 Overcoming Global Conflicts

 Conclusion: The Principles of a Theory of Global Social Justice
1 Social and Economic Justice

2 Political and Cultural Justice

References

Index