Suchergebnisse

Aunque la' "raza", esto es, las representaciones y clasificaciones raciales, ha constituido un rasgo estructural fundamental de la vida política a lo largo del período moderno, no ha sido incorporada de manera sistemática en la teoría política normativa que domina la filosofía angloamericana- en la forma en que lo hizo con la "clase" a finales del siglo XIX y en que ha tratado de hacerlo recientemente con el "género" y la "cultura". Un análisis detallado de la influyente distinción de Jolm Rawls entre teoría "ideal" y ''no-ideal" apunta a un diagnóstico del problema y sugiere una cura: una forma de teoría crítica que combine los fines constructivos y reconstructivos de la teoría normativa con los fines interpretativos y explicativos de los estudios de base empírica y con los fines prácticos de la crítica social y política. ; Although "race", i.e. racial representations and classifications, has been a major structural feature of political life throughout the modern period, the normative political theory that dominates Anglo-American political philosophy has not systematically incorporated it as such — in the way that it did "class" in the late nineteenth century and has recently attempted to do with "gender" and "culture." A close analysis of John Rawls's influential distinction between "ideal" and "non-ideal" theory points to a diagnosis of the problem and suggests a cure: a form of critical theory that combines the constructive and reconstructive aims of normative theory with the interpretive and explanatory aims of empirically based studies and withthe practical aims of social and political critique.

There has recently been a surge of interest, theoretical and political, in reparations for slavery. This essay takes up several moral-political issues from that intensifying debate: how to conceptualize and justify collective compensation and collective responsibility, and how to establish a plausible connection between past racial injustices and present racial inequalities. It concludes with some brief remarks on one aspect of the very complicated politics of reparations: the possible effects of hearings and trials on the public memory and political culture of a historically racist society. The hope is that these arguments, taken together, draft a coherent case for slavery reparations as pursued by the Reparations Coordinating Committee.

The settlement of the North American continent was... a consequence not of any higher claim in a democratic or international sense, but rather of a consciousness of what is right which had its sole roots in the conviction of the superiority and thus of the right of the white race. —Adolf Hitler, 1932