Synopses & Reviews
Political Constructivism is concerned with the justification of principles of political justice in the face of pluralism. Contemporary accounts of multiculturalism, pluralism and diversity have challenged the capacity of political theory to impartially justify principles of justice beyond the boundaries of particular communities.
In this original account, Peri Roberts argues that political constructivism defends a conception of objective and universal principles that set normative limits to justifiable political practice. Political Constructivism explores this understanding in two ways. Firstly, by engaging with constructivist thinkers such as John Rawls and Onora O?Neill in order to lay out a basic understanding of what constructivism is. Secondly, the author goes on to defend a particular account of political constructivism that justifies a universal primary constructivism alongside the many secondary constructions in which we live our everyday lives. In doing so he outlines an understanding of principled pluralism which accepts diversity whilst at the same time recognising its limits.
This volume will be of particular interest to students and researchers of political theory and political philosophy.
Synopsis
Constructivism, a major force in political theory, attempts to address the problems of moral and political justification in the modern plural and multicultural world. In this volume the author explores the nature and possibilities of constructivism through an engagement and examination of the foremost constructivist positions, Rawls, Scanlon and O'Neill.
Outlining the substantive and formal conclusions constructivism can justify, this book deepens our understandings of the possibilities that constructivism brings to political theory. The author argues that constructivism must be understood as at least a two level enterprise, consisting of a thin universalist primary constructivism linking with a plurality of local and secondary constructions, and then goes on to lay out the content of the primary construction.
This book will be of interest to students and researchers studying political theory and political philosophy.
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"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge."