Book abstract: From Harvard University, one of the world’s preeminent institutions of liberal education, comes a collection of essays…
Legal texts have been with us since the dawn of human history. Beginning in 1953, life too became textual. The discovery of the structure…
Iris Marion Young died in August 2006, at the age of only 57. Responsibility for Justice further develops some themes that have been…
Sequencing the human genome provided a powerful new way to represent human identity, and the moral implications of that re-representation…
Increasing political and economic interconnectedness draws much philosophical attention to the question of the conditions under which such…
First published in Philosophy & Public Affairs 35 (2007): 359-400.
Is forcing a people to be free possible, and if so, is it ever…
It is by now a cliché to observe that Barack Obama took office facing the greatest challenge of any United States president since Franklin…
In recent work I have tried to revitalize the standpoint of humanity's commonly owning the earth. This standpoint has implications for a…
This article is intended for an edited volume in the series "The New Harvard Bookshelf: Towards a Liberal Education for the 21st Century."…