We would like to invite you to discuss our upcoming Book with Klostermannverlag about the development of discourses of Justice.
The everyday use and labeling of people, actions, and structures as ‘just’ or ‘unjust’ seems to us to be far removed from its tradition. In political discourse, from left to right, people make use of the semantics of justice, and a pluralistic use is emerging in the world religions. Social developments seem to claim to be evaluated from the perspective of ‘just/unjust’: this applies to the gender debate, climate justice, intergenerational justice, restorative justice, memory justice, epistemic justice and ontological injustice in Catholicism.
At the same time, the spread of the vocabulary of justice seems to be both an expression and a harbinger of a crisis: if goods, status, essential resources, education and places of remembrance are perceived as ‘unjust’, this indicates a ‘crisis’ in which a sphere can develop in a more just or more unjust direction.