Being Responsible for the Past: Reparative Responses to Historic Injustice - Couverture souple

Stark, Susan A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1009375563 ISBN 13 : 9781009375566

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Many think that there is nothing to be done now to address past wrongs. The intergenerational harm argument connects ongoing harms with past wrongs, but this argument faces problems: it relies on empirical claims connecting wrongs of the past with harms in the present, claims with which not everyone agrees, and since the wrongdoers existed in the past, it is difficult to say who owes reparations today. In this book, Susan Stark discusses cases of wrongs and injustices - focusing on genocides, the transatlantic slave trade, and social discrimination and oppression of various kinds -- and explores the complex ethical problem of how past wrongs and historic injustices can be partially repaired in the present, and of who is morally required to repair them. She argues for a new way of thinking about reparations, and shows that it is possible to make some repair in the present for wrongs done by others in the past.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan A. Stark is Professor of Philosophy at Bates College. She has co-edited a Special Issue of the Journal of Social Philosophy entitled 'Reparations.' Her publications have appeared in journals including Noûs, Public Affairs Quarterly, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, The Journal of Social Philosophy and The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009375563
• ISBN 13: 9781009375566
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie