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This volume of essays addresses a wide range of issues in contemporary political philosophy, from the different branches of liberalism and their relation to capitalism, to the basic institutions of a liberal society that underwrite political and economic justice

"Samuel Freeman is one of Rawls's foremost interpreters. This volume contains nine of his essays on Rawls and Rawlsian justice, two of which are previously unpublished. Freeman places Bawls within historical context in the social contract tradition, addresses criticisms of his positions, and discusses the implications of his views on issues of distributive justice, liberalism and democracy, international justice, and other subjects. This collection will be useful to the wide range of scholars interested in Rawls and theories of justice."--Jacket

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. John Rawls is the most significant and influential philosopher and moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political science, economics and other social disciplines. In this exciting collection of essays, many of the world's leading political and moral theorists discuss the full range of Rawls's contribution to the concepts of political and economic justice, democracy, liberalism, constitutionalism, and international justice. There are also assessments of Rawls's controversial relationships with feminism, utilitarianism and communitarianism. New readers will find this to be an accessible guide to Rawls. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of developments in the interpretation of Rawls.

Seit Mitte der 1960er Jahre bis zu seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 1995 hat John Rawls an der Harvard University regelmäßig eine Lehrveranstaltung mit dem Titel »Politische Philosophie der Neuzeit« angeboten. Dabei diskutierte er seine eigenen theoretischen Entwürfe, ergriff aber zugleich immer wieder die Gelegenheit, seine Ansichten zur Philosophie des Politischen und des Sozialen mit denen seiner Vorläufer in Beziehung zu setzen: mit den Vertragstheoretikern Hobbes, Locke und Rousseau, den Utilitaristen Hume und Mill sowie mit Marx als dem in vieler Hinsicht interessantesten Kritiker des klassischen Liberalismus. Der Band versammelt Rawls' große Vorlesungen zu diesen Klassikern und bietet die seltene Gelegenheit, die Geschichte der politischen Philosophie mit den Augen eines ihrer herausragenden zeitgenössischen Vertreter zu lesen.