Justice and Love: A Philosophical Dialogue
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How do we see and act justly in the world? In what ways can we ethically respond to social and economic crisis? How do we address the desperation that exists in the new forms of violence and atrocity? These are all questions at the heart of Justice and Love, a philosophical dialogue on how to imagine and act in a more just world by theologian Rowan Williams and philosopher Mary Zournazi.
Looking at different religious and philosophical traditions, Williams and Zournazi argue for the re-invigoration and enriching of the language of justice and, by situating justice alongside other virtues, they extend our everyday vocabularies on what is just.
Drawing on examples ranging from the Paris Attacks, the Syrian War, and the European Migrant Crisis to Brexit and the US Presidential elections, Williams and Zournazi reflect on justice as a process: a condition of being, a responsiveness to others, rather than a cold distribution of fact. By doing so, they explore the love and patience needed for social healing and the imagination required for new ways of relating and experiencing the world.
A series of philosophical meditations on how we might think about justice and, by extension, love in the contemporary world.
The authors are extremely experienced and well respected: Rowan Williams is an internationally recognised and celebrated theologian and ethicist and Mary Zournazi is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and broadcaster
In a world riven with political conflict and violence, from the European Migrant Crisis to Brexit, a clear and practical explanation of how to form a more just world is extremely timely
The original and novel dialogical structure of this book ensures it is suitable for those outside of the academy as well as providing a lively and authorial voice for academics and students
Introduced by Ben Okri OBE, Nigerian poet and novelist, who won the Man Booker Prize for this novel The Famished Road in 1991
Conversations Between Souls, Ben Okri
Prologue: Some Reflections on Justice and Love
PART ONE: Justly Looking
I. On Justice
II. Justly Looking
PART TWO: Reckoning
III. Reckoning
IV. Time and Attention
V. Witnessing
PART THREE: Love
VI. For Love and Justice
VII. Discourses of Faith
Afterword
Epilogue
How to define justice? Find the correct universal formula? Rectify long-standing injustices (there are lots of these)? This eye-opening exchange between two remarkable thinkers, who draw on their knowledge of politics, theology and literature, shows us how much more is required. We have to be able really to see each other beyond our self-serving projections and stereotypes (something that love can provide resources for); and we have to imagine how we could form together a mutually sustaining society.
- Title: Justice and Love: A Philosophical Dialogue
- Authors: Mary Zournazi, Rowan Williams, Ben Okri
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350090385, 9781350090361, 1350090360, 1350090387
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350090385
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-08T21:30:49Z
Rowan Williams (Baron Williams of Oystermouth) is Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK. He was formerly Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, UK, and was Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002-2012.
Mary Zournazi is an Australian writer and philosopher. She is the author of several books, including Hope - New Philosophies for Change (2003) and Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception (I.B. Tauris, 2013). Her book Keywords to War (2007) was made into a radio documentary for ABC Radio National in Australia and it was nominated for the Australian UN Media Peace Prize in 2008.
Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. His novel The Famished Road won the Man Booker Prize in 1991.