John Rawls: Reticent Socialist

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 w...