Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency

by Lea Ypi

Book Overview

Why should states matter and how do relations between fellow-citizens affect what is owed to distant strangers? How, if at all, can demanding egalitarian principles inform political action in the real world? This book proposes a novel solution through the concept of avant-garde political agency. Lea Ypi grounds egalitarian principles on claims arising from conflicts over the distribution of global positional goods, and illustrates the role of avant-garde...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199593876
• ISBN13: 9780199593873
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"