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The Concept of Injustice
Author(s): Eric Heinze (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 24 Oct. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 218 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415524415
- ISBN-13: 9780415524414
Book Description
The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory. Thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant, Hegel, Marx and Rawls have subordinated the idea of injustice to the idea of justice. Misled by the word’s etymology, political theorists have assumed injustice to be the sheer, logical opposite of justice. Heinze summons ancient and early modern texts, philosophical and literary, with special attention to Shakespeare, to argue that injustice is not primarily the negation, failure or absence of justice. It is the constant product of regimes and norms of justice. Justice is not always the cure for injustice, and is often its cause.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Heinze offers a rigorous critique of our common understandings of justice . . . an original and engaging contribution.’ Matthew J. Ball, Griffith Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2013), pp. 546-547.
‘The scholarship is breathtaking . . . there is no underestimating the immense service this book has done for those of us . . . working to convert specific cases of injustice into first-order socio-political problems.’ Adrian Howe, Legal Studies, Vol. 34 No. 4 (2014), pp. 736-748.
If you’re doing research in this area of legal theory, you’ll be delighted with the extensive footnoting throughout, the massive bibliography and the useful index. – Phillip Taylor, Richmon Green Chambers
About the Author
Eric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. His most recent publications on legal theory have appeared in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Ratio Juris, International Journal of Law in Context, Legal Studies, Journal of Social & Legal Studies, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Law & Critique, Law & Literature, and Law & Humanities.
