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John Rawls: Reticent Socialist William A. Edmundson (Georgia State University)

John Rawls: Reticent Socialist By William A. Edmundson (Georgia State University)

John Rawls: Reticent Socialist by William A. Edmundson (Georgia State University)


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This book is the first detailed reconstruction of the late work of John Rawls. It focuses on Rawls's presentation of two regime types capable of realizing 'justice-as-fairness': property-owning democracy and liberal socialism. Long mistaken as an apologist for welfare-state capitalism, Rawls emerges here as an understated advocate of socialism.

John Rawls: Reticent Socialist Summary

John Rawls: Reticent Socialist by William A. Edmundson (Georgia State University)

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.

John Rawls: Reticent Socialist Reviews

'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

About 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.

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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GOR013773201
9781316625774
131662577X
John Rawls: Reticent Socialist by William A. Edmundson (Georgia State University)
Used - Very Good
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Cambridge University Press
2018-05-10
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