John Rawls: Reticent Socialist

by William A Edmundson and William A. Edmundson

This book is the first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls, who was perhaps the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century. Rawls's 1971 treatise, A Theory of Justice, stimulated an outpouring of commentary on 'justice-as-fairness, ' his conception of justice for an ideal, self-contained, modern political society. Most of that commentary took Rawls to be defending welfare-state capitalism as found in Western Europe and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107173191
• ISBN13: 9781107173194
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.5"