Ponders such questions as: How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? and What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbour? Shklar formulates a new political and moral theory of injustice.

How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbor? In this book a distinguished political theorist ponders these and other questions and formulates a new political and moral theory of injustice that encompasses not only deliberate acts of cruelty or unfairness but also indifference to...(展开全部)

Ponders such questions as: How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? and What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbour? Shklar formulates a new political and moral theory of injustice.

"The first two lectures place the alternative I defend -- a kind of pragmatic realism -- in a historical and metaphysical context. Part of that context is provided by Husserl's remark that the history of modern philosophy begins with Galileo -- that is, modern philosophy has been hypnotized by the idea that scientific facts are all the facts there are. Another part is provided ...(展开全部)

Justice is a human virtue that is at once unconditional and conditional. Under favourable circumstances, we can be motivated to act justly by the belief that we must live up to what justice requires, irrespective of whether we benefit from doing so. But, our will to act justly is subject to conditions. We find it difficult to exercise the virtue of justice when others regularly...(展开全部)

Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. But is sanity in fact a kind of sickness? And might mental illness itself le...(展开全部)

Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and married mother of three, is becoming increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and taunting voices. Convinced that her housekeeper and husband are plotting against her, she descends into a terrifying world of sickness, pills and institutionalization. But is sanity in fact a kind of sickness? And might mental illness itself le...(展开全部)

[美]亚当‧本福拉多（Adam Benforado） 美国德雷塞尔大学法学教授，曾在耶鲁大学和牛津大学学习，哈佛大学法律，曾担任联邦上诉法院的法官助理，Jenner＆Block（简博）事务所合伙律师。他发表过大量学术文章和书摘，在《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《高等教育纪事》《美国学者》和《波士顿评论》也发表过专栏和论文。

[美]亚当‧本福拉多（Adam Benforado） 美国德雷塞尔大学法学教授，曾在耶鲁大学和牛津大学学习，哈佛大学法律，曾担任联邦上诉法院的法官助理，Jenner＆Block（简博）事务所合伙律师。他发表过大量学术文章和书摘，在《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《高等教育纪事》《美国学者》和《波士顿评论》也发表过专栏和论文。

艾伦·梅恩（Alan Mayne），研究贫民窟历史的重要权威，英国莱斯特大学城市历史中心的客座教授，南澳大利亚大学兼职教授。他1993年出版的作品《想象中的贫民窟：三个城市新闻报道中的陈述（1870—1914）》（The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870–1914）引起了世界范围内对贫民窟问题的广泛关注。