Making Sense of Social Injustice

Abstract

The idea of social injustice is pivotal to much contemporary moral and political philosophy, and yet mysteriously this concept has repeatedly failed to attract the detailed analysis it deserves. What makes this lacuna in the literature even more surprising is the fact that the idea of social justice has attracted more attention than any other single concept in moral and political philosophy over the past 50 years. How could so much be written about social justice, and so little about social injustice? This book is an attempt to rebalance this anomaly.