Equality and Diversity: Value Incommensurability and the Politics of Recognition

Equality and diversity......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Establishing the parameters of the equality and diversity debate......Page 17
Radical politics and universalism versus particularism......Page 20
Resolving the conflict between the values of equality and diversity......Page 24
Value incommensurability and celebrating difference......Page 31
Celebrating difference and justice as reciprocity......Page 35
Introduction......Page 44
Value incommensurability and ‘covering values’......Page 46
Values and quantity versus quality......Page 49
Objects and structure: the Platonic versus Nietzschean viewpoints......Page 51
Accidents, attachments and the creation of value or meaning......Page 54
Regret and incommensurability......Page 61
Value relativism and becoming attached......Page 64
Introduction......Page 72
Liberal egalitarian political philosophy and the perspective of others......Page 73
First- and second-order empathic imagination......Page 77
The separateness of persons and objective accounts of wellbeing......Page 80
Agency and surprise......Page 83
Learning from others who are agents: general implications for policy and practice......Page 88
Introduction......Page 96
Choice, responsibility and luck in liberal egalitarian theory......Page 97
The role of compassion and pity in theories of redistributive justice......Page 99
Liberal egalitarian teleology and well-being......Page 101
Well-being and luck revisited......Page 103
Luck, agency, separate persons and justice as reciprocity......Page 108
Keeping our distance in compassion-based social relations......Page 114
Introduction......Page 120
Reinterpretations of the medical model......Page 122
Reinterpretations of the social model......Page 125
Impairment as talent, and pain as disvalue and value......Page 130
Identity, human agency, struggle and oppression......Page 135
Selfhood, utilitarianism, value conflict and disability......Page 138
Introduction......Page 144
Kantian ethics: needs, rights and citizenship in policy and practice......Page 146
Nietzsche as a surprising ally of the disability rights movement......Page 150
From Kant to Nietzsche in more than one uneasy move......Page 155
Postmodernism and how irresolvable conflicts can be radical and dynamic......Page 159
Introduction......Page 166
The exaggerated divide between analytical and continental philosophy......Page 170
A bridge not too far between existentialists and value incommensurabilists......Page 174
Equality, diversity and incommensurable values......Page 176
Recognition and reciprocity in liberal egalitarian communities......Page 179
References......Page 188
Index......Page 200