By Christian Schemmel
Justice for Earthlings is a collection of various articles on social justice, global justice, and the methodology of political theory which were published in different places over the last decade or so. Its main value as a book is precisely that of bringing together these articles in one place, for easy reference, but it also adds a new, and highly original, chapter– “A Tale of Two Cities, or Political Philosophy as Lamentation” – delivering a diagnosis of what, in David Miller’s view, has gone wrong with the direction, and ambitions, of a prominent strand in recent political philosophy: ‘fact-free’ political philosophy of the kind advocated especially by G.A. Cohen. This chapter significantly enhances the value of a volume as a whole. More on it at the end of this review.
Published:
2016
DOI:
doi.org/10.1177/0090591716630746
Online available:
journals.sagepub.com