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In this dissertation I explore some recent philosophical attempts to address questions related toglobal justice and world politics, principally through the work of Amartya Sen and ThomasPogge. My discussion focuses on some central intractable puzzles, and I argue that globaljustice is best seen as a predicament - an unanswerable, impossible question which cannot bereadily dismissed, but also as a topic of deliberation and contestation which, once predicated,requires a depth and seriousness of response which confounds conventional disciplinary andconversational boundaries.The disciplinary decorum of liberal political philosophy minimises attention to thehistorical context of the theorist, along with evidence and interpretive argument about historyand social theory. Writers such as Pogge and Sen have pushed against those constraints,attempting to develop more empirically informed and practically oriented accounts. However,I argue that they have underestimated the need for a deeper engagement with history, and for amore radical challenge to implicit understandings of the character of the world. Without amore robust engagement with the power-infused politics of the real world, the abstraction ofpolitical philosophy will continue to produce accounts which are inadequate to the dimensionsof domination, the character of human suffering, and the dynamic and strategic character ofnormative argument.
