Justice as Attunement

<p>The meaning of an expression resides not in the expression itself but in the experience of a person’s engagement with it. Meaning will be different not only to different people but also to the same person at different times. This book offers a way of attending to these different meanings. This way (or method) is a version of a trans-cultural activity that Richard Dawson calls attunement. The activity of attunement involves a movement of self-adjustment to a language which a person transforms in her or his use of it. Consciously performing the activity can enable understanding of the processes by which we constitute ourselves and others when we use a language. This directly connects to the topic justice which is concerned with constituting appropriate selves and relations. </p><p><em>Justice as Attunement</em> engages with a wide range of texts – legal literary economic philosophical among others – and illuminates many useful and fascinating connections between them. There is a sense in which this book transcends disciplinary boundaries for in addition to students and scholars of law literature economics and philosophy it is written to a general reader who is interested in reflecting on and doing justice to their experiences in life.</p>