Christine Sypnowich
Biographic Data
| ID | 299377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Sypnowich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Sypnowich |
| SIGNATURE | SYPNOWICH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5822-8356 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Good for All: Justice, Human Flourishing, and Equality
The retrieval of liberal socialism
Liberalism has long been seen as at odds with socialism, the former deeming the latter to be a creed inherently hostile to freedom. This view is the target of Matthew McManus's stimulating and timely new book, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism . The book's central, compelling claim is that liberal principles can only be fully realised in a society with the high degree of material and social equality offered by socialism. McManus explores …
Marx, justice, and the juridical
Igor Shoikhedbrod’s stimulating monograph, Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights, provides a timely occasion to reflect on how legal procedures might be conceptualized against the background of a radical progressive project, and how justice, in all its forms, might be achieved in an ideal socialist society. The book’s mission is to defend Karl Marx against critics who contend that the concept of justice…
Monuments and monsters: Education, cultural heritage and sites of conscience
Cultural heritage, manifest in public monuments, plays an important role in education, providing tangible artefacts that chart the history of a society, its achievements, tragedies and horrors, contributing to human understanding and well-being. The educational impact is lifelong—everyone from schoolchildren to senior citizens visit and take in heritage sites. How heritage is to be approached, however, is a complex question, with conflicting narr…
What’s Wrong with Equality of Opportunity
How do we know if people are equal? Contemporary philosophers consider a number of issues when determining if the goals of egalitarian distributive justice have been achieved: defining the metric of equality; determining whether the goal is equality, or simply priority or sufficiency; establishing whether there should be conditions, e.g. bad brute luck, for the amelioration of inequality. In all this, most egalitarians contend that what is to be …
Lessons from Dystopia: Critique, Hope and Political Education
This article analyses utopian and dystopian literature and its role in political education in order to make the case for imparting a ‘utopian aspiration’ that nurtures hope for the pursuit of political ideals. I note an ‘anti-utopian’ theme in both literature and political philosophy, a theme that emerges in a particularly fascinating pair of works in the dystopian canon, Orwell's 1984 and Zamyatin's We. I argue that Zamyatin's story provides a m…
Flourishing children, flourishing adults: Families, equality and the neutralism-perfectionism debate
Political philosophers are divided on the question of whether society should guide individuals in their projects and goals in light of the competing, yet overlapping, values of moral independence and human well-being. The lively neutralism-perfectionism debate appears to be significantly muted, however, when it comes to children who, all parties assume, should be guided by adults in their plans of life. Thus, in their stimulating new book, Family…
What's Left in egalitarianism? Marxism and the limitations of liberal theories of equality
Contemporary Marxism may seem to have been eclipsed by the dominance of Left-liberalism in egalitarian thought. Since Rawls, the liberal tradition has made a robust contribution to the argument for distributive justice, whilst Marxist orthodoxy regarding the "withering away" of the state has seemed unhelpful in comparison. However, most Left liberals are wedded to several claims that constrain the ambition and depth of the egalitarian project, cl…
Equality Renewed: Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal
Equality Renewed: Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal
Taking Britain's Human Rights Act Seriously
The Human Rights Act of 1998 was one of the first pieces of legislation passed by Tony Blair's Labour government, and as such it symbolized heady hopes for a new, progressive era in British politics and law. These high expectations were disappointed, perhaps inevitably. Civil libertarians have been critical of the Labour government's policies of regulating welfare recipients, street people, and truants and of the illiberal treatment of terrorist …
The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G. A. Cohen
This collection pays tribute to the highly influential work of Professor G.A. Cohen in the field of egalitarian political philosophy. He has a significant body of work spanning issues of Marxism and distributive justice, consistently characterized by original ideas and ingenious arguments. The volume includes essays on a number of significant topics, reflecting the wide-ranging themes of Professor Cohen’s work, but united in their concern for que…
Cosmopolitans, cosmopolitanism, and human flourishing
Debates about equality tend to take as their context the relations among citizens in a single society. Yet problems of inequality obviously go beyond a particular territory or country. The greatest equality gaps are no longer, as they were a hundred years ago, between rich and poor persons within a country, but between rich and poor peoples: problems of inequality are most egregious between the haves and have-nots in the international context. An…
The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism
In a period of rapid internationalization of trade and increased labor mobility, is it relevant for nations to think about their moral obligations to others? Do national boundaries have fundamental moral significance, or do we have moral obligations to foreigners that are equal to our obligations to our compatriots? The latter position is known as cosmopolitanism, and this volume brings together a number of distinguished political philosophers an…
Equality: From Marxism to Liberalism (and Back Again)
G. A. Cohen casts doubt on the extent to which Marxism can contribute to a theory of equality. This essay affirms Cohen's critique. The historical materialist approach to social change, the privileged role ascribed to the proletariat, and Marx's assumption that scarcity can be abolished: these three themes account for the impatience of classical Marxists with moral commitments and normative argument, an impatience which now seems utopian. Marx wa…
The Culture of Citizenship
The idea that the state has a duty to protect minority cultures has become so influential that cultural rights might seem a logical extension of T. H. Marshall's idea of citizenship rights; that is, the most recent set of rights to enable the citizen to be a fully participating member of the political community. This article takes the view, however, that citizens do not have cultural rights in the sense of rights to the protection of their minori…
C. B. Macpherson Prize
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Equality and Nationality
Justice, Community, and the Antinomies of Feminist Theory
Afin d'affirmer la pertinence continue de la vision socialiste sur les preoccupations feministes, l'A. etudie des debats philosophiques en dehors de ce socialisme. Il etablit un parallele entre les debats de la theorie feministe et les debats incluant liberaux et communautaristes dans la philosophie politique
Alexandra Kollontai and the Fate of Bolshevik Feminism
Alexandra kollontai is one of the most fascinating and least understood figures of the Bolshevik revolution. A feminist and a socialist, Kollontai defended a vision of emancipation premised on equality, comradeship, and personal autonomy, where society would take responsibility for domestic labour while enabling in dividuals freely to express their sexuality. In the wake of the collapse of Soviet communism, Kollontai and her creed may seem a subj…
The Future of Socialist Legality: A Reply to Hunt
My book The Concept of Socialist Law challenges the view that an ideal socialist society would have no need of law. While thinkers on the Left advocate socialism in the name of justice, they have traditionally dismissed those legal institutions which have provided some measure of justice in
The Concept of Socialist Law
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Concept of Socialist Law. By Christine Sypnowich. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. x + 195. Price £25.00.) Michael A. Menlowe Michael A. Menlowe University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 162, January 1991, Pages 117–118, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219801 Published: 01 January 1991
The Concept Of Socialist Law
This book seeks to remedy the contempt for law prominent in socialist writings. While political thinkers on the left are indisputably concerned with justice, they dismiss those legal institutions which, in liberal capitalist societies, have ensured some minimum measure of justice in citizens' lives. Marxists in particular have tended to reduce law to a capitalist apparatus necessary to mediate conflict between egoistic wills or social classes. Th…
Monuments and monsters: Education, cultural heritage and sites of conscience
Cultural heritage, manifest in public monuments, plays an important role in education, providing tangible artefacts that chart the history of a society, its achievements, tragedies and horrors, contributing to human understanding and well-being. The educational impact is lifelong—everyone from schoolchildren to senior citizens visit and take in heritage sites. How heritage is to be approached, however, is a complex question, with conflicting narr…
Justice, Community, and the Antinomies of Feminist Theory
Afin d'affirmer la pertinence continue de la vision socialiste sur les preoccupations feministes, l'A. etudie des debats philosophiques en dehors de ce socialisme. Il etablit un parallele entre les debats de la theorie feministe et les debats incluant liberaux et communautaristes dans la philosophie politique
The Culture of Citizenship
The idea that the state has a duty to protect minority cultures has become so influential that cultural rights might seem a logical extension of T. H. Marshall's idea of citizenship rights; that is, the most recent set of rights to enable the citizen to be a fully participating member of the political community. This article takes the view, however, that citizens do not have cultural rights in the sense of rights to the protection of their minori…
Lessons from Dystopia: Critique, Hope and Political Education
This article analyses utopian and dystopian literature and its role in political education in order to make the case for imparting a ‘utopian aspiration’ that nurtures hope for the pursuit of political ideals. I note an ‘anti-utopian’ theme in both literature and political philosophy, a theme that emerges in a particularly fascinating pair of works in the dystopian canon, Orwell's 1984 and Zamyatin's We. I argue that Zamyatin's story provides a m…
Equality: From Marxism to Liberalism (and Back Again)
G. A. Cohen casts doubt on the extent to which Marxism can contribute to a theory of equality. This essay affirms Cohen's critique. The historical materialist approach to social change, the privileged role ascribed to the proletariat, and Marx's assumption that scarcity can be abolished: these three themes account for the impatience of classical Marxists with moral commitments and normative argument, an impatience which now seems utopian. Marx wa…
Flourishing children, flourishing adults: Families, equality and the neutralism-perfectionism debate
Political philosophers are divided on the question of whether society should guide individuals in their projects and goals in light of the competing, yet overlapping, values of moral independence and human well-being. The lively neutralism-perfectionism debate appears to be significantly muted, however, when it comes to children who, all parties assume, should be guided by adults in their plans of life. Thus, in their stimulating new book, Family…
The Concept Of Socialist Law
This book seeks to remedy the contempt for law prominent in socialist writings. While political thinkers on the left are indisputably concerned with justice, they dismiss those legal institutions which, in liberal capitalist societies, have ensured some minimum measure of justice in citizens' lives. Marxists in particular have tended to reduce law to a capitalist apparatus necessary to mediate conflict between egoistic wills or social classes. Th…
The Concept of Socialist Law
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Concept of Socialist Law. By Christine Sypnowich. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. x + 195. Price £25.00.) Michael A. Menlowe Michael A. Menlowe University of Edinburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 162, January 1991, Pages 117–118, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219801 Published: 01 January 1991
The Future of Socialist Legality: A Reply to Hunt
My book The Concept of Socialist Law challenges the view that an ideal socialist society would have no need of law. While thinkers on the Left advocate socialism in the name of justice, they have traditionally dismissed those legal institutions which have provided some measure of justice in
Justice, Community, and the Antinomies of Feminist Theory
Afin d'affirmer la pertinence continue de la vision socialiste sur les preoccupations feministes, l'A. etudie des debats philosophiques en dehors de ce socialisme. Il etablit un parallele entre les debats de la theorie feministe et les debats incluant liberaux et communautaristes dans la philosophie politique
Alexandra Kollontai and the Fate of Bolshevik Feminism
Alexandra kollontai is one of the most fascinating and least understood figures of the Bolshevik revolution. A feminist and a socialist, Kollontai defended a vision of emancipation premised on equality, comradeship, and personal autonomy, where society would take responsibility for domestic labour while enabling in dividuals freely to express their sexuality. In the wake of the collapse of Soviet communism, Kollontai and her creed may seem a subj…
Equality and Nationality
C. B. Macpherson Prize
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Prix C. B.-Macpherson
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Culture of Citizenship
The idea that the state has a duty to protect minority cultures has become so influential that cultural rights might seem a logical extension of T. H. Marshall's idea of citizenship rights; that is, the most recent set of rights to enable the citizen to be a fully participating member of the political community. This article takes the view, however, that citizens do not have cultural rights in the sense of rights to the protection of their minori…
Equality: From Marxism to Liberalism (and Back Again)
G. A. Cohen casts doubt on the extent to which Marxism can contribute to a theory of equality. This essay affirms Cohen's critique. The historical materialist approach to social change, the privileged role ascribed to the proletariat, and Marx's assumption that scarcity can be abolished: these three themes account for the impatience of classical Marxists with moral commitments and normative argument, an impatience which now seems utopian. Marx wa…
Cosmopolitans, cosmopolitanism, and human flourishing
Debates about equality tend to take as their context the relations among citizens in a single society. Yet problems of inequality obviously go beyond a particular territory or country. The greatest equality gaps are no longer, as they were a hundred years ago, between rich and poor persons within a country, but between rich and poor peoples: problems of inequality are most egregious between the haves and have-nots in the international context. An…
The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism
In a period of rapid internationalization of trade and increased labor mobility, is it relevant for nations to think about their moral obligations to others? Do national boundaries have fundamental moral significance, or do we have moral obligations to foreigners that are equal to our obligations to our compatriots? The latter position is known as cosmopolitanism, and this volume brings together a number of distinguished political philosophers an…
The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G. A. Cohen
This collection pays tribute to the highly influential work of Professor G.A. Cohen in the field of egalitarian political philosophy. He has a significant body of work spanning issues of Marxism and distributive justice, consistently characterized by original ideas and ingenious arguments. The volume includes essays on a number of significant topics, reflecting the wide-ranging themes of Professor Cohen’s work, but united in their concern for que…
Taking Britain's Human Rights Act Seriously
The Human Rights Act of 1998 was one of the first pieces of legislation passed by Tony Blair's Labour government, and as such it symbolized heady hopes for a new, progressive era in British politics and law. These high expectations were disappointed, perhaps inevitably. Civil libertarians have been critical of the Labour government's policies of regulating welfare recipients, street people, and truants and of the illiberal treatment of terrorist …
Equality Renewed: Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal
Equality Renewed: Justice, Flourishing and the Egalitarian Ideal
Flourishing children, flourishing adults: Families, equality and the neutralism-perfectionism debate
Political philosophers are divided on the question of whether society should guide individuals in their projects and goals in light of the competing, yet overlapping, values of moral independence and human well-being. The lively neutralism-perfectionism debate appears to be significantly muted, however, when it comes to children who, all parties assume, should be guided by adults in their plans of life. Thus, in their stimulating new book, Family…
What's Left in egalitarianism? Marxism and the limitations of liberal theories of equality
Contemporary Marxism may seem to have been eclipsed by the dominance of Left-liberalism in egalitarian thought. Since Rawls, the liberal tradition has made a robust contribution to the argument for distributive justice, whilst Marxist orthodoxy regarding the "withering away" of the state has seemed unhelpful in comparison. However, most Left liberals are wedded to several claims that constrain the ambition and depth of the egalitarian project, cl…
Lessons from Dystopia: Critique, Hope and Political Education
This article analyses utopian and dystopian literature and its role in political education in order to make the case for imparting a ‘utopian aspiration’ that nurtures hope for the pursuit of political ideals. I note an ‘anti-utopian’ theme in both literature and political philosophy, a theme that emerges in a particularly fascinating pair of works in the dystopian canon, Orwell's 1984 and Zamyatin's We. I argue that Zamyatin's story provides a m…
What’s Wrong with Equality of Opportunity
How do we know if people are equal? Contemporary philosophers consider a number of issues when determining if the goals of egalitarian distributive justice have been achieved: defining the metric of equality; determining whether the goal is equality, or simply priority or sufficiency; establishing whether there should be conditions, e.g. bad brute luck, for the amelioration of inequality. In all this, most egalitarians contend that what is to be …
Monuments and monsters: Education, cultural heritage and sites of conscience
Cultural heritage, manifest in public monuments, plays an important role in education, providing tangible artefacts that chart the history of a society, its achievements, tragedies and horrors, contributing to human understanding and well-being. The educational impact is lifelong—everyone from schoolchildren to senior citizens visit and take in heritage sites. How heritage is to be approached, however, is a complex question, with conflicting narr…
The retrieval of liberal socialism
Liberalism has long been seen as at odds with socialism, the former deeming the latter to be a creed inherently hostile to freedom. This view is the target of Matthew McManus's stimulating and timely new book, The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism . The book's central, compelling claim is that liberal principles can only be fully realised in a society with the high degree of material and social equality offered by socialism. McManus explores …
Marx, justice, and the juridical
Igor Shoikhedbrod’s stimulating monograph, Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights, provides a timely occasion to reflect on how legal procedures might be conceptualized against the background of a radical progressive project, and how justice, in all its forms, might be achieved in an ideal socialist society. The book’s mission is to defend Karl Marx against critics who contend that the concept of justice…
Good for All: Justice, Human Flourishing, and Equality
Sociology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Politics (12 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Law and economics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economic Justice (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works)