Just Democracy

Having taken up the challenge of combining Rawls and Machiavelli and extending their original programmes, Just Democracy provides a complex account of the conceptual relationship between global social justice and national/supra-national democracy. Throughout the book, the reader can locate many sensitive spots on the justice-democracy map, as well as weigh the required means of action suggested by the author. In the end, these illustrate that democracy should not be taken for granted, and that, in its shadow, there is enough room for injustice. -- Ileana Dascălu, University of Bucharest

Philippe Van Parijs holds doctorates in philosophy (Oxford) and the social sciences (Louvain). He is professor at the Université of Louvain, where he has directed the Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics since its creation in 1991. He has been a regular visiting professor at Harvard University and at the University of Leuven, and has held visiting positions at many other institutions around the world. His books include Evolutionary Explanation in the Social Sciences (1981), Marxism Recycled (1993), Real Freedom for All (1995), What's Wrong with a Free Lunch? (2000) and Linguistic Justice for Europe and for the World (2011).