Responsibility for Justice

By Iris Marion Young,

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When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: globalā€¦

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1 author picked Responsibility for Justice as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Although it is more academic than the others Iā€™ve recommended, this book is both practical and urgent: it asks how weā€™re responsible for facing up to the structures of injustice in which we are implicatedā€”the legacies of colonialism and slavery, the ongoing catastrophe of climate change. Youngā€™s answer is that responsibility here is not about guilt or shame but the obligation to work for change, an obligation we can only meet through collective action, working with others to transform the systems around us. Youngā€™s argument is rich, provocative, and inspiring.

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