The Just State: Rethinking Self-Government

by Richard Dien Winfield

At a time when the enemies of democracy cannot be dissuaded by appeals to shared values and conventions, nothing is more pressing than a thoroughgoing investigation of what the state should be. Whereas contemporary thinkers have mostly relativized political justice or conceived it as a formal concept lacking institutional detail, The Just State provides a comprehensive theory of self-government, legitimating democracy and concretely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591023173
• ISBN13: 9781591023173
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Humanities Press Intl
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"