Thomas Pogge and his CriticsISBN: 978-0-7456-4257-4
Hardcover
224 pages
December 2010, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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The massive disparity between the relative wealth of most citizens
in affluent countries and the profound poverty of billions of
people struggling elsewhere for survival is morally jolting. But
why exactly is this disparity so outrageous and how should the
citizens of affluent countries respond? Political philosopher,
Thomas Pogge, has emerged as one of the world’s most ardent
critics of global injustice which, he argues, is caused directly by
the operation of a global institutional order that not only
systematically disadvantages poor countries but is imposed on them
by precisely those wealthy, powerful countries that benefit the
most from the order’s injustice. In allowing their
governments to perpetrate this injustice, Pogge contends that
citizens of the wealthy countries collude in a monumental crime
against humanity.
In this book Pogge’s challenging and controversial ideas are debated by leading political philosophers from a range of philosophical viewpoints. With a clear and informative introduction by Alison Jaggar, and original contributions from Neera Chandhoke, Jiwei Ci, Joshua Cohen, Erin Kelly, Lionel McPherson, Charles W. Mills, Kok-Chor Tan, and Leif Wenar, this volume deepens and expands the debate over global justice and moral responsibility in the world today.
In this book Pogge’s challenging and controversial ideas are debated by leading political philosophers from a range of philosophical viewpoints. With a clear and informative introduction by Alison Jaggar, and original contributions from Neera Chandhoke, Jiwei Ci, Joshua Cohen, Erin Kelly, Lionel McPherson, Charles W. Mills, Kok-Chor Tan, and Leif Wenar, this volume deepens and expands the debate over global justice and moral responsibility in the world today.