Epistemic Liberalism: A Defence (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) - Hardcover

Tebble, Adam James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415591996 ISBN 13: 9780415591997

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

How should the State respond to the different identity-based justice claims made by its citizens? To what extent should majority societies accede to the claims of minority and immigrant groups whose values are different to, and sometimes in conflict with, their own?

 Drawing on the work of economist and political theorist Friederich Hayek, the author builds a major critique of contemporary responses to cultural diversity and their underlying principles of justice. Critically examining multicultural, nationalist and liberal egalitarian approaches, the author claims that in their differing ways these schools of thought all fail to recognise the proper task of cultural justice. Tebble claims the principal task of justice is not to provide public institutions that assume a particular conception of the good life, or of an idealised vision of relations between different communities and the values they endorse. Instead, Epistemological Liberalism emphasises the need for strictly neutral institutions of justice, founded upon a commitment to individual freedom and equality, which permit the discovery of what cultural justice requires. The book defends an ‘epistemological’ account of liberalism that emphasises social complexity rather than cultural diversity or homogeneity per se and which, it is claimed, is the most appropriate response to cultural diversity in modern complex societies.

 An invaluable contribution to contemporary debates about justice, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of culture and identity, contemporary political theory/philosophy and liberal political theory.

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About the Author

Adam Tebble is Lecturer in Political Theory at King’s College London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415591996
• ISBN 13: 9780415591997
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 298