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When the noted political philosopher Iris Marion Young died in 2006, her death was mourned as the passing of "one of the most important political philosophers of the past quarter-century" (Cass Sunstein) and as an important and innovative thinker working at the conjunction of a number of important topics: global justice; democracy and difference; continental political theory; ethics and international affairs; and gender, race and public policy. In her long-awaited Responsibility for Justice, Young discusses our responsibilities to address "structural" injustices in which we among many are implicated (but for which we not to blame), often by virtue of participating in a market, such as buying goods produced in sweatshops, or participating in booming housing markets that leave many homeless. Young argues that addressing these structural injustices requires a new model of responsibility, which she calls the "social connection" model. She develops this idea by clarifying the nature of structural injustice; developing the notion of political responsibility for injustice and how it differs from older ideas of blame and guilt; and finally how we can then use this model to describe our responsibilities to others no matter who we are and where we live. With a foreword by Martha C. Nussbaum, this last statement by a revered and highly influential thinker will be of great interest to political theorists and philosophers, ethicists, and feminist and political philosophers.

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• Foreword(p. ix)
• 1 From Personal to Political Responsibility(p. 3)
• 2 Structure as the Subject of Justice(p. 43)
• 3 Guilt versus Responsibility: A Reading and Partial Critiqueof Hannah Arendt(p. 75)
• 4 A Social Connection Model(p. 95)
• 5 Responsibility across Borders(p. 123)
• 6 Avoiding Responsibility(p. 153)
• 7 Responsibility and Historic Injustice(p. 171)
• Index(p. 189)

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CHOICE Review

Young (formerly, Univ. of Chicago), who died before finishing this book, distinguishes guilt, a largely backward-looking individualized conception, from responsibility, a shared, forward-looking idea that emphasizes social connection and mutual interdependence in complex societies. Many conservatives deny the existence of social structural injustice and collective responsibility for large-scale processes that systematically disadvantage many people. Young persuasively disagrees. The poor have responsibilities, but solving their problems requires government and group solutions. In addressing problems like persistent poverty, inequality, inadequate schools, vulnerability, and group concentration in low-paying positions and bad housing, collective responsibility is a broader, more plausible conception than individualized guilt and laying blame in terms of personal laziness, consistently bad decisions, and natural inferiority. It acknowledges degrees of responsibility for undesirable or unjust outcomes that are not due to legal culpability or individual transgression of rules, laws, or norms: contributing to a climate of opinion, personally benefitting from inequality, going about one's normal and legal business, legal pursuit of self-interest, or taking advantage of opportunities have unintended consequences that may reduce opportunities and possibilities for those who are less favorably situated. Perceptive readers can easily provide numerous examples from current headlines. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduate students and above. C. P. Waligorski emeritus, University of Arkansas

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Iris Marion Young [deceased] was Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago. She is the author of Inclusion and Democracy and On Female Body Experience.