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Professor John Charvet

Professor John Charvet

Emeritus Professor in Political Science

Department of Government

Telephone
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About me

John Charvet is Emeritus Professor in Political Science in the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Government. His research interests include liberalism, equality and human rights. Professor Charvet has written several books, inluding, '' and ''.

Research interests

  • Liberalism
  • Equality
  • Human Rights
  • Feminism

Books


(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

The belief in equality as the basis of a just society is fundamental to the dominant western, liberal viewpoint. Yet, the standard individualist justification for it is weak and contradictory. This book provides a radically new communitarian account of the value of equality and establishes it's proper limits.