A Companion to Rawls
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Wide ranging and up to date, this is the single most comprehensive treatment of the most influential political philosopher of the 20th century, John Rawls.
An unprecedented survey that reflects the surge of Rawls scholarship since his death, and the lively debates that have emerged from his work
Features an outstanding list of contributors, including senior as well as next generation Rawls scholars
Provides careful, textually informed exegesis and well–developed critical commentary across all areas of his work, including non–Rawlsian perspectives
Includes discussion of new material, covering Rawls s work from the newly published undergraduate thesis to the final writings on public reason and the law of peoples
Covers Rawls s moral and political philosophy, his distinctive methodological commitments, and his relationships to the history of moral and political philosophy and to jurisprudence and the social sciences
Includes discussion of his monumental 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, which is often credited as having revitalized political philosophy
Specificaties
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<p>Introduction 1<br /> Jon Mandle and David A. Reidy</p>
<p>Part I Ambitions 7</p>
<p>1 From Philosophical Theology to Democratic Theory: Early Postcards from an Intellectual Journey 9<br /> David A. Reidy</p>
<p>2 Does Justice as Fairness Have a Religious Aspect? 31<br /> Paul Weithman</p>
<p>Part II Method 57</p>
<p>3 Constructivism as Rhetoric 59<br /> Anthony Simon Laden</p>
<p>4 Kantian Constructivism 73<br /> Larry Krasnoff</p>
<p>5 The Basic Structure of Society as the Primary Subject of Justice 88<br /> Samuel Freeman</p>
<p>6 Rawls on Ideal and Nonideal Theory 112<br /> Zofia Stemplowska and Adam Swift</p>
<p>7 The Choice from the Original Position 128<br /> Jon Mandle</p>
<p>Part III A Theory of Justice 145</p>
<p>8 The Priority of Liberty 147<br /> Robert S. Taylor</p>
<p>9 Applying Justice as Fairness to Institutions 164<br /> Colin M. Macleod</p>
<p>10 Democratic Equality as a Work–in–Progress 185<br /> Stuart White</p>
<p>11 Stability, a Sense of Justice, and Self–Respect 200<br /> Thomas E. Hill, Jr</p>
<p>12 Political Authority, Civil Disobedience, Revolution 216<br /> Alexander Kaufman</p>
<p>Part IV A Political Conception 233</p>
<p>13 The Turn to a Political Liberalism 235<br /> Gerald Gaus</p>
<p>14 Political Constructivism 251<br /> Aaron James</p>
<p>15 On the Idea of Public Reason 265<br /> Jonathan Quong</p>
<p>16 Overlapping Consensus 281<br /> Rex Martin</p>
<p>17 Citizenship as Fairness: John Rawls s Conception of Civic Virtue 297<br /> Richard Dagger</p>
<p>18 Inequality, Difference, and Prospects for Democracy 312<br /> Erin I. Kelly</p>
<p>Part V Extending Political Liberalism: International Relations 325</p>
<p>19 The Law of Peoples 327<br /> Huw Lloyd Williams</p>
<p>20 Human Rights 346<br /> Gillian Brock</p>
<p>21 Global Poverty and Global Inequality 361<br /> Richard W. Miller</p>
<p>22 Just War 378<br /> Darrel Moellendorf</p>
<p>Part VI Conversations with Other Perspectives 395</p>
<p>23 Rawls, Mill, and Utilitarianism 397<br /> Jonathan Riley</p>
<p>24 Perfectionist Justice and Rawlsian Legitimacy 413<br /> Steven Wall</p>
<p>25 The Unwritten Theory of Justice: Rawlsian Liberalism versus Libertarianism 430<br /> Barbara H. Fried</p>
<p>26 The Young Marx and the Middle–Aged Rawls 450<br /> Daniel Brudney</p>
<p>27 Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny 472<br /> Claudia Card</p>
<p>28 Critical Theory and Habermas 487<br /> Kenneth Baynes</p>
<p>29 Rawls and Economics 504<br /> Daniel Little</p>
<p>30 Learning from the History of Political Philosophy 526<br /> S.A. Lloyd</p>
<p>31 Rawls and the History of Moral Philosophy: The Cases of Smith and Kant 546<br /> Paul Guyer</p>
<p>Index 567</p>