Pluralizing Political Philosophy Economic and Ecological Inequalities in Global Perspective

Pluralizing Political Philosophy focuses on economic and ecological inequalities. By reducing the current marginalization of a range of traditions and approaches outside liberalism, which especially takes place at universities in the Global North, political philosophy will have access to a richer range of theories. This marginalization happens to some extent to traditions that could be understood as providing an 'internal critique' to liberalism, but happens especially to various non-western political philosophies. The chapters in this edited volume illustrate the wide range of perspectives that exist to analyze economic and ecological inequalities. In addition to critical discussions of liberal egalitarianism and green liberalism, contributing authors also offer discussions of M?ori philosophy, ecofeminism, Confucian political philosophy, an ethics of care, Ubuntu philosophy, Buen Vivir, and hybrid approaches. The different traditions and approaches not only differ in their normative commitments but also in their ontological assumptions and methodological underpinnings. The volume closes with four shorter chapters that provide meta-theoretical reflections on the volume, and make suggestions on how to further pluralise political philosophy. This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Ingrid Robeyns holds the Chair in Ethics of Institutions at Utrecht University. She studied Economics and Philosophy, and has published widely on questions of inequality, social justice, and applied issues in ethics and political theory. She served as Director of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy, as President of the Human Development and Capability Association, and is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent book is Limitarianism (2024), and her current research focusses on the normative assessment of alternatives to neoliberal capitalism.