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Contemporary theoretical conceptions of political justice, because politics involves the interaction of self-interested human beings on the level of stuff and power, equate justice with the distribution of “goods.” The assumption that there are goods to be distributed “justly,” brings a corollary assumption about the environment in which those goods are distributed. Postmodern, postcolonial, feminist, and other critiques, however, suggest that taking the contents of the political environment for granted, works against our grasping the complexities of establishing and maintaining a just social order. There is, in other words, a need for a careful consideration of the space(s) in which this distribution occurs.
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Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1983);
Jean Francois Lyotard and Jean-Loup Thebaud, Just Gaming, trans. Wlad Godzich (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1985).
See Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971);
See Dworkin, “What is Equality? Part II: Equality of Resources,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 10 (1981): 283–345.
See Sandel, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
An excellent introduction to approaches to justice is Serge-Christophe Holm, “Distributive Justice,” in A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, eds. Robert Goodin and Phillip Pettit (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1996).
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince in Machiavelli, Selected Political Writings, ed. and trans. David Wootton (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1994).
See Walzer, “Response,” in Pluralism, Justice, and Equality, eds. David Miller and Walzer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 281–297, especially, 282.
See Bill Readings, Introducing Lyotard: Art and Politics (London and New York: Routledge, 1991), xxxi.
See Jean Francois Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988).
See for example the collection of essays in Lyotard, “Algerians” in Political Writings, trans. Bill Readings and Kevin Paul Geiman (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 165–326.
Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 1 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 22, 38. DeCerteau argues that
See Vaclav Havel, “Six Asides About Culture,” in Open Letters: Selected Writings 1965–1990, ed. Paul Wilson (New York: Vintage, 1992), 272–284.
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LeBlanc, J.R., Medine, C.M.J. (2012). Negotiating Space(s): Reframing Political Conflict in Walzer and Lyotard. In: Ancient and Modern Religion and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137071514_10
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