Aesthetic Injustice

A Just Society Is Well Ordered. Put Another Way, Justice Is Goodness In Relatively Large Scale Social Arrangements. Put In Terms Of Reasons Rather Than Goodness, Those Relatively Large Scale Social Arrangements Are Just That We Have Reason To Implement. Correspondingly, Injustice Is Badness In Relatively Large Scale Social Arrangements: They Are Ones That We Have Reason Not To Put In Place. So Articulated, Concepts Of Justice And Injustice Are Ancient And Widespread, But Some Concepts Of Some Specific Varieties Of Injustice Have Taken Hold Only Recently And Only In Some Societies. After All, Unjust Social Arrangements Tend To Persist When They Make It Hard For People To Conceptualize What Makes Them Unjust. For Example, The Concept Of Racial Injustice Is A Product Of A Long And Arduous Struggle, Part Of Which Was A Struggle To Overcome Thinking That Obscured The Injustice Of Racism. The Reality Of Racial Injustice Antedates Our Capacity To See It, With Full Clarity, For The Injustice That It Is. We Should Expect That We Will Continue To Expand The Repertoire Of Concepts By Means Of Which We Bring Existing Injustices Into View, And We Should Hope For The Expansion To Continue Until No Stone Is Left Unturned. What Is About To Be Dubbed Aesthetic Injustice Has Not Been Fully Recognized. In Order To Bring It Into View, This Book Introduces And Then Defends A Theory Of Aesthetic Injustice-- Provided By Publisher.