Naomi Zack: 13 books
Applicative Justice
A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Naomi Zack pioneers a new theory of justice starting from a correction of current injustices. While the present justice paradigm in political philosophy and related fields begins from John Rawls’s 1970 Theory of Justice, Zack insists that what people in reality care about is not justice as an ideal,...
White Privilege and Black Rights
The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Zack draws clear lines between rights and privileges and between justice and existing laws to make sense of the current crisis. This urgent and...
The Ethics and Mores of Race
Equality after the History of Philosophy, with a New Preface
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. Beginning with Plato and a philosophical tradition that has largely ignored race, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy...
The Ethics and Mores of Race
Equality after the History of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. Beginning with Plato and a philosophical tradition that has largely ignored race, The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy...
Inclusive Feminism
A Third Wave Theory of Women's Commonality
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
Second Wave feminism collapsed in the early 1980s when a universal definition of women was abandoned. At the same time, as a reaction to the narcissism of white middle class feminism, "intersectionality" led to many different feminisms according to race, sexual preference and class. These...
Reviving the Social Compact
Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Naomi Zack’s *Reviving the Social Compact:*Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics addresses current political and social upheaval and distress with new concepts for the relationship between citizens and government. Politics has become turbo-charged as a form of agonistic contest where...
by Naomi Zack
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Combining a basic history of philosophical thought with the often quirky personal stories of famous philosophers, this comprehensive introduction to the world of philosophy answers more than 1,000 questions, ranging from What was the Enlightenment? to Why did the Pythagorians avoid fava beans? Analyzing...
by Kelly Oliver, Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. The essays examine visual, print, and performance media—stand-up comedy, movies, television, and...
by Naomi Zack
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Linda Martín Alcoff, Ronald Robles Sundstrom, Gabriella Beckles-Raymond
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience is a collection of essays by philosophers about the mixed race experience. Each essay is meant to represent one of three possible things: (1) what the philosopher sees as the philosopher’s best work, (2) evidence of the possible impact of the philosopher’s...
by Naomi Zack
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars of contemporary issues in African American philosophy and philosophy of race. These original essays encompass the major topics and approaches in this emerging philosophical subfield that supports...
Philosophy of Race
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction provides plainly written access to a new subfield that has been in the background of philosophy since Plato and Aristotle. Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in...
Changing Space, Changing City
Johannesburg after apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As the dynamo of South Africa’s economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation’s imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This richly illustrated study offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city’s...