The Faces of Injustice

How can we distinguish between injustice and misfortune? What can we learn from the victims of calamity about the sense of injustice they harbor? In this book a distinguished political theorist ponders these and other questions and formulates a new political and moral theory of injustice that encompasses not only deliberate acts of cruelty or unfairness but also indifference to such acts.

Judith N. Shklar draws on the writings of Plato, Augustine, and Montaigne, three skeptics who gave the ...