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John Rawls: Reticent Socialist

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Author: William A. Edmundson, Georgia State University

Date Published: May 2018
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781316625774

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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 the United States. Far less attention has been given to Rawls's 2001 book, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. In the Restatement, Rawls not only substantially reformulates the 'original position' argument for the two principles of justice-as-fairness but also repudiates capitalist regimes as possible embodiments. Edmundson further develops Rawls's non-ideal theory, which guides us when we find ourselves in a society that falls well short of justice.
- Presents a new interpretation that encompasses all of Rawls's published work, providing a reconstruction of Rawls's overall theory as a result of forty years of revision
- Edmundson presents Rawls's argument against the justice of capitalism in liberal democracies, enabling both the novice and advanced reader to easily grasp the radical thrust of Rawls's work
- Demonstrates how Rawls's reworked argument for 'justice-as-fairness' leads to socialism, revealing to scholar and student what the greatest political philosopher of the past century means to us now
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'Edmundson has written an admirably concise yet powerful book.' Nick Cowen, The Review of Politics
'John Rawls: Reticent Socialist is a valuable contribution to the debate about which social institutions best allow us to treat each other as moral equals.' Nick Cowen, The Review of Politics
'It is one of the greatest merits of William Edmundson’s analysis in John Rawls: Reticent Socialist to unambiguously bring out Rawls’s profound hostility to a capitalist society characterized by both economic exploitation and political domination, where those with more money and resources can undermine the fair value of political liberties by exerting disproportionate influence on political processes that further entrench their accumulated advantage.' Lea Ypi, Catalyst
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- Date Published: May 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316625774
- length: 222 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Conceptions of property in the original position
2. Property-owning democracy versus liberal socialism
3. Fair value and the fact of domination
4. The four-stage sequence
5. The circumstances of politics
6. Rescuing the difference principle
7. The special psychologies
8. Socialism and stability
9. The common content
10. The property question
11. Religion and reticence
12. Non-ideal theory: the transition to socialism
Bibliography
Index.
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William A. Edmundson, Georgia State University
William A. Edmundson is Regents Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgia State University College of Law. He is the author of Three Anarchical Fallacies (Cambridge, 1998) and An Introduction to Rights (Cambridge, 2012), and editor of The Duty to Obey the Law (1999) and The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (2004). He is also the series editor of the Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law.