Scott Timcke is Research Associate at the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. His research focuses on the transformations of race, class and technology during modernity.
Timke's book is a theoretically sophisticated engagement with the concepts of luck, inequality and justice; what these mean under capitalism; and, crucially, what they could mean in the pursuit of social justice. A timely read that critically engages and expands the conceptual, philosophical and political boundaries. Carin Runciman, University of Edinburgh Timcke presents a cogent and compelling argument showing the structural opportunism of luck in shaping our understanding of the nature of distributional justice. Gary McCarron, Simon Fraser University Scott Timcke argues that liberalism lacks a good dose of Marxist historical materialism. Coming after the failures and crises of neoliberalism and the Third Way, Timcke's work makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of inequality, challenging assumptions about luck and meritocracy in contemporary capitalist societies. Sean Jacobs, The New School