A standard way of proceeding in political philosophy is to start with some form of conceptual inquiry: we first try to figure out what justice, equality, and freedom *are *and only then we may eventually begin thinking about how these goods might be pursued and achieved. On this approach, although social *activism *is perhaps necessary to counteract the worst kinds of social deprivation, it is also *premature *from the philosophical standpoint: as we still are debating what justice is, present efforts to *bring about justice *are risky at best.
In her new book, Making Space for Justice: Social Movements, Collective Imagination, and Political Hope) (Columbia University Press, 2022), Michele Moody-Adams) travels a different path. She begins by looking at social movements and argues that they not only can *teach us *about what justice is, but that they often play a necessary role in clarifying our normative concepts.
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