An inquiry into injustice that is subtle, many-layered, psychologically deeply perceptive, historically self-conscious in the highest degree, and written in a style at once ironic, sceptical, and graceful.

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.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

GIVING INJUSTICE ITS DUE

MISFORTUNE AND INJUSTICE

THE SENSE OF INJUSTICE

NOTES

INDEX