value incommensurability and the politics of recognition /
Steven R. Smith
Britsol :
Policy Press,
2011
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages)
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Equality, diversity and radical politics -- Value incommensurability -- Empathic imagination and its limits -- Critiquing compassion-based social relations -- Egalitarianism, disability and monistic ideals -- Equality, identity and disability -- Paradox and the limits of reason. -- References -- Index
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This title explores the values of equality and diversity as promoted across liberal societies, drawing on various traditions of political and social philosophy, including liberal egalitarianism, existentialism, and elements of post modernism and post-structuralism