John Rawls - Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity

Donald Moon's John Rawls: Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity is an accessible biography that explores how Rawls' life helped establish the fundamental commitment of classical liberalism through the understanding that the individual has always stood in an ambiguous relationship to the central object of the study of politics-the state.

List of contents

Chapter One: Introduction: Challenges to Liberalism
Chapter Two: Political Liberalism: Justice as Social Cooperation
1. Justice as grounded in comprehensive doctrines
2. Political conceptions of justice
3. Political liberalism
4. Justice as Fairness
5. Conclusion
Chapter Three: Public Reason and Inclusion
1 Restraint and privatization
2 The need for consensus
3 The question of priority
4 Toleration and exclusion
Chapter Four: Class, Inequality, and Distributive Justice
1 Egalitarian liberalism
2 Incentives and inequality
3 Pluralism and social justice
4 Merit and desert
Chapter Five: Global Pluralism and International Justice
1 Rawls's Law of Peoples
2 Inclusiveness of the society of peoples
3 Peoples vs persons
4. Globalization, democracy and domestic basic structures
5 Conclusion: justice and global inequality
Chapter Six: Conclusion

About the author

J. Donald Moon is the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Professor in the College of Social Studies at Wesleyan University.

Summary

Donald Moon’s John Rawls: Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity is an accessible biography that explores how Rawls’ life helped establish the fundamental commitment of classical liberalism through the understanding that the individual has always stood in an ambiguous relationship to the central object of the study of politics—the state.

Product details

• Authors: J. Donald Moon, J.donald Moon, Moon J. Donald
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2014
• EAN: 9781442238275
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3827-5
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Modernity and Political Thought; Modernity and Political Thought
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, Biography: historical, political and military, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies