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Judgment, Imagination, and Politics brings together for the first
time leading essays on the nature of judgment. Drawing from themes
in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Hannah Arendt's discussion of
judgment from Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, these essays
deal with: the role of imagination in judgment; judgment as a
distinct human faculty; the nature of judgment in law and politics;
and the many puzzles that arise from the 'enlarged mentality, ' the
capacity to consider the perspectives of others that aren't in Kant
treated as essential to judgment
An innovative view of how everyone doing part-time work and
part-time caregiving would promote flourishing families, free time,
equality, and the true value of care. The way that Western
countries approach work and care for others is fundamentally
dysfunctional. The amount of time spent at work places
unsustainable stress on families, particularly in the face of
rising inequality, while those who perform care are underpaid and
their labor undervalued. In Part-Time for All, Jennifer Nedelsky
and Tom Malleson propose a plan to radically restructure both work
and care. As such, they offer a solution to four pressing problems:
the inequality of caregivers; family stress from competing demands
of work and care; chronic time scarcity; and policymakers who are
ignorant about the care that life requires—the care/policy
divide. Nedelsky and Malleson argue that no capable adult should do
paid work for more than 30 hours per week, so that they can
contribute substantial amounts of time to unpaid care for family,
friends, or other "communities of care." While the authors focus
primarily on human-to-human care, they also include care for the
earth as a vital part of this shift. All of the elements of
Nedelsky and Malleson's proposal already exist piecemeal in various
countries. What is needed is to integrate the key reforms and scale
them up. The result is an actionable plan to motivate widespread
take-up of part-time work and part-time care. Highlighting how
these new norms can create synergies of institutional
transformation while fostering a cultural shift in the value of
care and work, this "care manifesto" identifies the deep changes
that are needed and lays out a feasible path forward.
The United States Constitution was designed to secure the rights of
individuals and minorities from the tyranny of the majority2;or was
it? Jennifer Nedelsky's provocative study places this claim in an
utterly new light, tracing its origins to the Framers'
preoccupation with the protection of private property. She argues
that this formative focus on property has shaped our institutions,
our political system, and our very understanding of limited
government.
Autonomy is one of the core concepts of legal and political
thought, yet also one of the least understood. The prevailing
theory of liberal individualism characterizes autonomy as
independence, yet from a social perspective, this conception is
glaringly inadequate. In this brilliantly innovative work, Jennifer
Nedelsky claims that we must rethink our notion of autonomy,
rejecting the usual vocabulary of control, boundaries, and
individual rights. If we understand that we are fundamentally in
relation to others, she argues, we will recognize that we become
autonomous with others-with parents, teachers, employers, and the
state. We should not therefore regard autonomy as merely a
conceptual tool for assigning rights, but as a capacity that can be
fostered or undermined throughout one's life through the
relationships and the societal structures we inhabit. The political
project thus should not only be to protect the individual from the
state and keep the state out, but to use law to construct relations
with the state that enhance autonomy. Law's Relations includes many
concrete legal applications of her theory of relational autonomy,
offering new insights into the debates over due process, judicial
review, violence against women, and private versus public law
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