Review of Towards Justice: A Critical Theory of Global Society and Politics by Marek Hrubec

The article is a review of the book written by Marek Hrubec entitled Towards Justice: A Critical Theory of Global Society and Politics. The review analyses Hrubec’s exploration of justice, mainly social justice, in its multifaceted global contexts. It explains how the book offers a critical rethinking of foundational social and political philosophies and theories in the West and reorients the reader towards the formulation of justice from the perspectives of the Global South across cultural and civilizational boundaries, addressing especially China, Latin America, and Africa. The review explores how the book examines the issues from the perspectives of democratic socialism and socialist democracy. While the book is a complex and extensive theory of society and politics, the review focuses on its main characteristics concerning three special aspects that the reviewer considers the most relevant and innovative: first, methodological trichotomy with a complex historical interpretation; second, perspectives of the Global South related to a critique of Western-centric hegemony; and third, a global comparative perspective leading to a theory of global social justice. The review evaluates the book as an important contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of philosophy, sociology, political science, and global studies.