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18Organic social changeDistinktion 18 (1): 59-81. 2017.The distinctness of each person’s life and experience is an important consideration in dominant accounts of how democratic institutions should distribute basic rights and liberties. Drawing on recent social movements, philosophers like Iris Marion Young, Miranda Fricker, and Axel Honneth have nonetheless drawn attention to the distinctive claims and challenges that plurality and difference entrain in democratic societies by analysing how the dominant discourses on rights and justice tend to elid…Read more
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510Organic social changeDistinktion 1 (18): 59-81. 2017.The distinctness of each person’s life and experience is an important consideration in dominant accounts of how democratic institutions should distribute basic rights and liberties. Drawing on recent social movements, philosophers like Iris Marion Young, Miranda Fricker, and Axel Honneth have nonetheless drawn attention to the distinctive claims and challenges that plurality and difference entrain in democratic societies by analysing how the dominant discourses on rights and justice tend to elid…Read more
James Abordo Ong
University of San Diego
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University of San DiegoPost-doctoral Fellow
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |
Continental Philosophy |
Existentialism |
Teaching Philosophy |