Companion to Rawls C

Herausgegeben von Mandle, Jon; Reidy, David A.

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Rawls is the single most comprehensive treatment of the most influential political philosopher of the 20th century, John Rawls. Wide ranging and up to date, reflecting the surge of and developments within Rawls scholarship since his death, and structuring for the coming decade the lively debates that have emerged from his work, the Companion Provides careful, textually informed exegesis and well-developed critical commentary on nearly all areas of his work, including non-Rawlsian perspectives. The outstanding list of contributors features a mix of senior Rawls scholars and "next generation" Rawls scholars.

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Wide ranging and up to date, this is the single most comprehensive treatment of the most influential political philosopher of the 20th century, John Rawls.

An unprecedented survey that reflects the surge of Rawls scholarship since his death, and the lively debates that have emerged from his work
Features an outstanding list of contributors, including senior as well as "next generation" Rawls scholars
Provides careful, textually informed exegesis and well-developed critical commentary across all areas of his work, including non-Rawlsian perspectives
Includes discussion of new material, covering Rawls's work from the newly published undergraduate thesis to the final writings on public reason and the law of peoples
Covers Rawls's moral and political philosophy, his distinctive methodological commitments, and his relationships to the history of moral and political philosophy and to jurisprudence and the social sciences
Includes discussion of his monumental 1971 book, A Theory of Justice , which is often credited as having revitalized political philosophy

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1072g
• ISBN-13: 9781444337105
• ISBN-10: 1444337106
• Artikelnr.: 39716070

Autorenporträt

Jon Mandle is Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University at Albany (SUNY). He has published two books on the work of John Rawls and one on global justice. His work engages in political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of social science, and their histories. David A. Reidy is Professor and Head in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He works in political and legal philosophy with special attention to the work of John Rawls and to issues of global justice and human rights. With Rex Martin he co-edited (and contributed to) a volume on Rawls's "The Law of Peoples" recognized by the American Library Association with a "Choice Award."

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 Jon Mandle and David A. Reidy Part
I Ambitions 7 1 From Philosophical Theology to Democratic Theory: Early
Postcards from an Intellectual Journey 9 David A. Reidy 2 Does Justice as
Fairness Have a Religious Aspect? 31 Paul Weithman Part II Method 57 3
Constructivism as Rhetoric 59 Anthony Simon Laden 4 Kantian Constructivism
73 Larry Krasnoff 5 The Basic Structure of Society as the Primary Subject
of Justice 88 Samuel Freeman 6 Rawls on Ideal and Nonideal Theory 112 Zofia
Stemplowska and Adam Swift 7 The Choice from the Original Position 128 Jon
Mandle Part III A Theory of Justice 145 8 The Priority of Liberty 147
Robert S. Taylor 9 Applying Justice as Fairness to Institutions 164 Colin
M. Macleod 10 Democratic Equality as a Work-in-Progress 185 Stuart White 11
Stability, a Sense of Justice, and Self-Respect 200 Thomas E. Hill, Jr 12
Political Authority, Civil Disobedience, Revolution 216 Alexander Kaufman
Part IV A Political Conception 233 13 The Turn to a Political Liberalism
235 Gerald Gaus 14 Political Constructivism 251 Aaron James 15 On the Idea
of Public Reason 265 Jonathan Quong 16 Overlapping Consensus 281 Rex Martin
17 Citizenship as Fairness: John Rawls's Conception of Civic Virtue 297
Richard Dagger 18 Inequality, Difference, and Prospects for Democracy 312
Erin I. Kelly Part V Extending Political Liberalism: International
Relations 325 19 The Law of Peoples 327 Huw Lloyd Williams 20 Human Rights
346 Gillian Brock 21 Global Poverty and Global Inequality 361 Richard W.
Miller 22 Just War 378 Darrel Moellendorf Part VI Conversations with Other
Perspectives 395 23 Rawls, Mill, and Utilitarianism 397 Jonathan Riley 24
Perfectionist Justice and Rawlsian Legitimacy 413 Steven Wall 25 The
Unwritten Theory of Justice: Rawlsian Liberalism versus Libertarianism 430
Barbara H. Fried 26 The Young Marx and the Middle-Aged Rawls 450 Daniel
Brudney 27 Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny 472 Claudia Card 28
Critical Theory and Habermas 487 Kenneth Baynes 29 Rawls and Economics 504
Daniel Little 30 Learning from the History of Political Philosophy 526 S.A.
Lloyd 31 Rawls and the History of Moral Philosophy: The Cases of Smith and
Kant 546 Paul Guyer Index 567

Rezensionen

"An outstanding collection of 31 essays, this collection provides a wide range of material for those interested in Rawls, liberalism, and political philosophy in general. This is one of those volumes that every university library should own. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Choice, October 2014
"The editors aim to produce "not so much a summary of past scholarly work as a serviceable roadmap for current and future work on Rawls" (1). It is a high ambition which raises high expectations which are, happily, lived up to." - Dialogue
"This Companion to Rawls is a rich collection of stimulating and critical essays, which provides us with more than a state of the art volume. The textual interpretations, contextual elucidations and illuminating connections with diverse disciplines invite the reader to explore new paths and perspectives. For students of (political) philosophy the volume will be more than a thorough introduction to the philosophy of Rawls. For well-grounded scholars, who are fully acquainted with Rawls's works, it will open up new insights and subtleties and offer them inspiration for future research. The Companion to Rawls is a welcome contribution to Rawls scholarship, which looks beyond A Theory of Justice and does justice to the versatility and ingenuity of Rawls's works and thoughts" - Dialogue