Concept of Injustice

<p>This book insists upon a re-thinking of Western theories of Justice. For 2500 years philosophers have subordinated the concept of injustice to the concept of justice as if injustice were only a secondary derivative notion. This book summons literary classics notably Shakespeare to argue that injustice not justice should be the focus of our attention. A long line of thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant Hegel Marx and Rawls have overlooked the central problems of injustice. The book identifies two elements – unity and measurement – that are constantly assumed to be essential to justice. It shows how in landmark literary classics it is precisely those two elements that end up generating injustice. Western justice theory it is concluded cannot advance until it takes a new approach to the concept and the realities of injustice.</p>