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In this book Michel Rosenfeld provides virtually the first interdisciplinary analysis of affirmative action. Rosenfeld offers a critical examination of the major existing philosophical and constitutional theories on affirmative action and elaborates a new theory that strongly defends the justice of affirmative action from both the standpoint of both philosophy and constitutional law.

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In this important and timely book, Rosenfeld (law, Yeshiva University) seeks to integrate philosophical and constitutional approaches to affirmative action policies. He includes a thorough analytical review of literatures in philosophy, social and political theory, law, and social science. The book is divided into three parts. An opening section critically analyzes and assesses four liberal conceptions of justice libertarian, contractarian, utilitarian, and egalitarian. A second section skillfully describes and critiques the Supreme Court's ambiguous and inconsistent legacy on affirmative action and considers relationships between philosophical conceptions of justice and Court doctrine. A final section attempts to construct an alternative conception of affirmative action, based on what Rosenfeld describes as the "dynamic relationship between equality as identity and equality as difference." Rosenfeld develops a provocative philosophical defense of affirmative action based on a principle of "justice as reversible reciprocity." He argues that deficiencies in liberal positions can be overcome through recourse to a dialogical process involving a "reversal of perspectives" and the suppression of power-dominated strategic communication. This solid and detailed study may be read productively with more general treatments of the law and politics of difference, such as Martha Minow's Making All the Difference (CH, Mar'91), and Iris Marion Young's Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990). Recommended for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students.-M. Kessler, Bates College