Rawls: An Introduction - Softcover

Maffettone, Sebastiano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745646514 ISBN 13: 9780745646510

Verlag: Polity Press, 2011

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This is for its size the best introduction to all of Rawls’s major works available. It is also a significant work of scholarship in its own right, with an especially strong emphasis on the continuity of Rawls’s thought. Maffettone’s acumen, expertise and dedication to his subject are in evidence on every page. 

Leif Wenar, King’s College London

Achieving a graceful balance of accessibility and rigor, Maffettone’s insightful and substantial study expounds Rawls’s thought as unified by the priority of the right over the good and offers a sober critical appraisal of it and its intellectual opponents.
Thomas W. Pogge, Yale University

John Rawls was the leading political philosopher of the past century. In this illuminating book, Sebastiano Maffettone gives us a complete, coherent, and compelling picture of Rawls's leading ideas: his liberal-egalitarian theory of justice, his ideas about legitimacy in a pluralistic democracy, and his account of the moral basis of global politics. Maffettone understands that the focus of Rawls's work shifted, but he sees the deeper continuities in Rawls's emphasis on the priority of the right and his distinction between the justice of a society and it capacity to elicit the willing support of its members. The book casts a powerful light on Rawls's work, both clarifying his ideas and explaining their plausibility.

Joshua Cohen, Stanford University

Reseña del editor

Rawls: An Introduction is a uniquely comprehensive introduction to the work of the American philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002), who transformed contemporary political philosophy. In the 1950s and 1960s, political philosophy seemed to have reached a dead end characterized by a loose predominance of utilitarian theses. Rawls's
conception of liberalism placed civil liberties and social justice at its core, and his extraordinary influence has only been confirmed by the extent of the criticism he has provoked.

The book is divided into three parts which correspond to Rawls's three major books. The first concentrates on A Theory of Justice (1971) and examines the way in which Rawls's general vision of social justice is presented. Maffettone also includes here a discussion of some of the most important critiques of Rawls. The second part of the book highlights Political Liberalism (1993-6), with a chapter dedicated to the "passage" from Theory of Justice to Political Liberalism. Finally, the third part provides a discussion of The Law of Peoples (1999).

This work is acomprehensive examination of these three major texts by a renowned Rawls scholar and will appeal to all philosophers and social scientists for whom it is essential to understand the key theories of this most influential of political philosophers.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0745646514
• ISBN 13: 9780745646510
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 402