Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

by John Rawls

Book Overview

This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the philosophy behind that tradition.

Rawls's goal in the lectures was, he wrote, "to identify the more central features of liberalism as expressing a political conception...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067403063X
• ISBN13: 9780674030633
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"