Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 236
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-78660-876-5 • Hardback • April 2019 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-1-78660-877-2 • eBook • April 2019 • $38.99 • (£30.00)
Alexandre Gajevic Sayegh is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at McGill University. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and a Lecturer at the Department of Political Sciences at Yale University.
Introduction / Part I / 1. On the Roles and Limits of Ideal Theory / 2. Overcoming the ‘Paradox’ of Ideal Theory / 3. Action-Guidance in a Non-Ideal World /4. Transitional Theory: Connecting Ideals with Political Action / Part II / 5. Tax Competition / 6. Climate Justice / 7. Carbon Pricing / Conclusion
What is our ideal of justice? What can we do to make the world a better place here and now? Bridging these questions, this insightful study presents a conceptual framework for formulating action-guiding principles. Case studies from climate change and international taxation provide refreshing illustrations of how to use abstract values as inspiration while showing sensitivity to empirical facts.
— Peter Dietsch, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Montreal
Can political philosophy enable progress on urgent global issues such as climate change? In this book, Sayegh both argues that it can and shows us how to do it by articulating a vision of political philosophy as ‘action guiding’. Deploying this philosophical method in analysis of tax competition, climate justice and carbon pricing, Sayegh brings fresh and significant insights. This book shows the power of philosophy when it is correctly married to empirical knowledge.
— Catriona McKinnon, Centre for Climate and Justice, University of Reading