Pravičnost in politična ureditev

Justice and Political Order by Dr. Luka Đekić opens one of the oldest and yet most urgent questions of political thought: how to design a political and economic order that is simultaneously just, democratic, and socially responsible. The author guides the reader through debates on normative political theory, political economy, the role of politics, democracy, economic inequality, and justice, while critically analysing statism, welfare capitalism, and neoliberalism.

The work was written at a time of rising economic inequalities, political distrust, democratic crisis, and a growing sense that existing political-economic arrangements no longer offer convincing answers to the defining challenges of the contemporary world — challenges that demand a renewed and deepened reflection on how society might be organised differently, and on what politics must become if it is to serve as an instrument for the just governance of our common life.

In dialogue with the most influential thinkers of contemporary political theory and political economy — from John Rawls and Thomas Piketty to Karl Polanyi, Amartya Sen, and others — the book develops the concept of liberal socialism as a possible alternative to existing political-economic arrangements.

This is not merely a book about economics, the state, or theories of justice. It is a book about what kind of politics we need, what kind of order we want, and what kind of society we are still capable of imagining.

Justice is not an abstract idea. It is a question of power, democracy, economy, and common life. It is for this reason, too, that the book is grounded in a reopening of the question of what a just society looks like — and what kind of politics can make it possible.