On Justice as Dance

• Authors: Joshua Hall

Abstracts

EN

This article is part of a larger project that explores how to channel people’s passion for popular arts into legal social justice by reconceiving law as a kind of poetry and justice as dance, and exploring different possible relationships between said legal poetry and dancing justice. I begin by rehearsing my previous new conception of social justice as organismic empowerment, and my interpretive method of dancing-with. I then apply this method to the following four “ethico-political choreographies of justice”: (1) the choral dance of souls qua winged chariot-teams (from Plato), (2) a dancingly beautiful friendship with the community (from Aristotle), (3) a tightrope-dance of the cool (from Al-Farabi), and (4) humans dancingly reimagined as positioned actors in fluidly moving groups (from Iris Marion Young). I then synthesize these analyses into “dancing justice,” defined as the dynamic equilibrium sustained by a critical mass of a community’s members comporting themselves like social dancers.

Keywords

EN

justice; social justice; Plato; Aristotle; Al-Farabi; Iris Marion Young; dance

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski
• Journal: Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 62-78

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Joshua Hall

• Department of Philosophy, William Paterson University of New Jersey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/eidos.jpc.2021.0039

Biblioteka Nauki

2044650