Book: Sen and a Sense of Justice ; the Most Prolific Philosopher of Our Time Challenges the Notions of Fairness and Offers an Alternative.
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THE IDEA OF JUSTICEby Amartya SenAllen Lane/PenguinPrice: RS 699Pages: 468It is a word that continues to power the idealism of the best and worst of mankind. Philosophers and prophets, kings and revolutionaries, presidents and pamphleteers, politicians and proselytisers-you name them and they all have been under the spell of the word. Justice: it's what minds like Immanuel Kant and Jean- Jacques Rousseau illuminated in their treatises; what Ashoka and Gandhi, in varying ways, exemplified in their lives; what Marx theorised at length and Stalin used to build the Gulag; what led Hitler to the Final Solution; and what drove the neo-Conservative freedom-exporters to Mission Mesopotamia.
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Book: Sen and a Sense of Justice ; the Most Prolific Philosopher of Our Time Challenges the Notions of Fairness and Offers an Alternative.
It's what works behind the italicised anger of a pulp intellectual like Arundhati Roy. It's what keeps Prakash Karat marginally relevant in spite of being an archival curiosity and what sends the desperate Hindu nationalist to the vandalised sites of mythology. Justice, in theory, is an ...
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