Contributor
Weithman, Paul J., 1959- editor.
ImprintCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Descriptionxiv, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Part I. Rawls and History -- Taillight illumination: how Rawlsian concepts may improve understanding of Hobbes's political philosophy / S. A. Lloyd -- The theory Rawls, the 1844 Marx, and the market / Daniel Brudney -- Rawls, Lerner, and the tax-and-spend booby trap: what happened to monetary policy? / Aaron James -- Rawls's principles of justice as a transcendence of class warfare / Elizabeth Anderson -- The significance of injustice / Peter de Marneffe -- Part II. Developments between A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism -- On being a 'self-originating source of valid claims' / Stephen Darwall -- Moral independence revisited: a note on the development of Rawls's thought from 1977-1980 and beyond / Samuel Scheffler -- The method of insulation: on the development of Rawls's thought after a theory of justice / Rainer Forst -- The stability or fragility of justice / Japa Pallikkathayil -- Part III. Rawls, Ideal Theory and the Persistence of Injustice -- The circumstances of justice / Erin I. Kelly -- Why Rawls's ideal theory leaves the well-ordered society vulnerable to structural oppression / Henry S. Richardson -- Race, reparations, and justice as fairness / Tommie Shelby -- On the role of the original position in Rawls's theory: reassessing the 'idealization' and 'fact-sensitivity' critiques / Laura Valentini -- Part IV. Pluralism, Democracy and the Future of Justice as Fairness -- Public reason at fifty / Kevin Vallier -- Reasonable political conceptions and the well-ordered liberal society / Samuel Freeman -- Religious pluralism and social unions / Paul Weithman -- One Person, at least one vote? Rawls on political equalitywithin limits / David Estlund -- Reflections on democracy's fragility / Joshua Cohen -- A society of self-respect / Leif Wenar.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-371) and index.
Note:"In 1971 John Rawls's A Theory of Justice transformed twentieth-century political philosophy, and it ranks among the most influential works in the history of the subject. This volume marks the 50th anniversary of the book's publication by offering a multi-faceted exploration of this important work."-- Provided by publisher.
