A Critical Concept of Injustice: Trichotomy Critique, Explanation, and Normativity

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  • Marek Hrubec Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2014v13n1p50

Abstract

The article deals with an issue of a critical concept of injustice. It concentrates on injustice by focusing on three fundamental elements of Critical theory of society: critique, explanation, and normativity. Firstly, it clarifies the need for critical social criticism to have an internal character. Secondly, it concentrates on relations between individual elements of the above-mentioned trichotomy, and stresses the consequences of such an analysis for a Critical social theory. It shows that only an articulation of all three elements in their mutual constitutive relations will enable to work out a critical concept of in/justice.

Author Biography

Marek Hrubec, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Marek Hrubec, PhD., is Director of the Centre of Global Studies at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. He focuses on critical social and political theory and philosophy, especially on social criticism, social and political recognition and justice in the global context. His recent book is From Misrecognition to Justice: Critical Theory of Global Society and Politics (Prague 2011)

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Published

2014-06-16

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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2014)

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