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John Rawls: Reticent Socialist: Ideal Theory and Practical Demands


ISBN13: 9781107173194
Published: July 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £105.00
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This book is the first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls. John Rawls is considered to be one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Well known for his writings as a political philosopher, Rawls also commented on economic and developmental psychology topics. His book A Theory of Justice has produced a considerable number of commentaries on Rawls' theory of “justice-as-fairness”.

In this volume Edmundson explores the generally accepted notion that Rawls was a defender of welfare-state capitalism as found in Western Europe and the United States. He points out that shortly before his death, Rawls expanded on what type of regime meet his criteria of a just state in his Justice as Fairness: A Restatement. Edmundson further develops Rawls' ideas on what our individual duties of justice are when we find ourselves in a society that falls short of justice and fairness.

  • John Rawls: Reticent Socialist 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 the both the novice and advanced reader to easily grasp the radical thrust of Rawls's work.
  • Edmundson 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.

Subjects:
Jurisprudence
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.