Introduction

Abstract

Abstract Iris Marion Young was a brilliant, creative, and prolific political thinker, philosopher, and activist. Her career was cut short by her untimely death at the age of 57 in 2006, but her ideas and theories continue to be inffuential all over the world. Young has created compelling complex theories of justice, social oppression, gender, and democracy that combine insights from phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and critical theory in a unique way. Her achievement in successfully combining these approaches is all the more impressive since proponents of these various approaches have often presented them as inconsistent. In order to celebrate her unique vision and the many facets of her intellectual contributions to political thought and feminist philosophy, we undertook to create this anthology of writings about her work, including a hitherto unpublished recent interview with her that will document and deepen the understanding and spread of her ideas. In what follows, we will outline the important legacy of the major aspects of her work and show how the chapters we have already collected explore and develop these aspects in critical and interesting ways.