Azmanova, Albena (2012) Social Justice and Varieties of Capitalism: An Immanent Critique. New Political Economy . ISSN 1356-3467.
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| Official URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2011.606902 |
Abstract
In assessing the various forms of welfare capitalism, normative political philosophy typically draws on two major philosophical traditions – republicanism and liberalism, invoking either equality and the public good or, alternatively, individual autonomy as normative criteria for evaluation. Drawing, instead, on Critical Theory as a tradition of social philosophy, I advance a proposal for assessment of the types of welfare capitalism conducted as ‘immanent critique’ of the key structural dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Normative criteria thus emerge within a diachronic dimension of social transformation, which in turn grounds the comparison among synchronic types of capitalism. This ultimately enables a research agenda for the operationalisation of a normative analysis of capitalism within which social justice is gauged by the degree of voluntary employment flexibility – a key factor in the distribution of life-chances in the early twenty-first century.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences J Political Science |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations |
| Depositing User: | Albena Azmanova |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2012 21:50 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2012 09:45 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/28675 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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