The focus will be on contemporary theories of justice: from ideal theories to non ideal theories of justice; from liberal distributive theories of justice to feminist critical theories and the priority they give to injustice.
B. Casalini e L. Cini, Giustizia, uguaglianza e differenza
Una guida alla lettura della filosofia politica contemporanea, FUP, Firenze University Press 2012 (https://www.fupress.com/catalogo/giustizia-uguaglianza-e-differenza/2416);
2) Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth, Redistribution or Recognition (copies of the parts of text that must be studied will be available in the moodle class).;
3) Iris Marion Young, Politics of Difference (copies of the parts of text that must be read will be available in the moodle class).
4) Tronto, Moral Boundaries (copies of the parts of text that must be read will be available in the moodle class).
5) Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities (copies of the parts of text that must be read will be available in the moodle class).
6) Maria Giulia Bernardini, Corpi muti: per una critica della prevalente irrappresentabilità del soggetto-donna disabile nel pensiero femminista.
In the moodle class you can find the bibliographical material and the list of the arguments on which you must write a paper of maximum 10 pages, no more than 20.000 characters.
Learning Objectives
Critical introduction to contemporary theories of justice.
Prerequisites
None.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures and seminars
Type of Assessment
Written examination. For each module of the course there will be three questions: two of them will require short answer, one a longer one. The time at your disposal will be 1 hour and thirty minutes.
Attending students will be required to present a short paper in class.
Non attending students will be required to present a written paper and to send it to the professor one week before the written examination.
Attendance will be taken into consideration in the final evaluation.
Course program
The focus will be on contemporary theories of justice: from ideal theories to non ideal theories of justice; from liberal distributive theories of justice to feminist critical theories and the priority they give to injustice.