Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Orientations
- Part I Poor Health: Social Justice and Mutual Recognition
- Part II Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
- Part III Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
- Part IV Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Orientations
- Part I Poor Health: Social Justice and Mutual Recognition
- Part II Poor Housing: Social Justice and Mutual Understanding
- Part III Poor Food: Social Justice and Mutual Respect
- Part IV Poor Spirits: Social Justice and Articulacy
Summary
“Electricity. [Mutual inductance is] the property of two circuits or devices by virtue of which a variation in the current flowing through one [by the flux lines of a magnetic field] induces an electromotive force in the other.”
“Physics. [A moment is] the turning effect produced by a force”
The Shorter Oxford English DictionaryThis book is about helping to rearticulate traditional ideas of social justice in terms of what I will be calling “moments of mutuality.” That is, the mortal situations of many utterly destitute persons in affluent societies and, especially, the mortal situations of destitute children in these societies, may, figuratively speaking, exercise a force on the attentions of some reflective persons. In turn, some of these persons may fruitfully turn towards the destitute and interact with them so as to endow them with new, basic powers while discovering in themselves unsuspected capacities of their own.
In particular, the book is about social justice when partly re-articulated in terms of “mutualities” with respect to the legally, politically, socially, and ethically unacceptable situations of destitute street children barely surviving amid unprecedented resources in many extraordinarily affluent European Union capital cities today like Paris.
When critically reconsidered from such a reflective standpoint, social justice becomes much less a matter of a “mutualistic” ethics of reciprocity, which is symmetrical.
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- Information
- Moments of MutualityRearticulating Social Justice in France and the EU, pp. 11 - 16Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2012