And it is a pleasure to recommend…an indigenous American philosophical masterpiece of the first order… I mean…to press my recommendation of to non-philosophers, especially those holding positions of responsibility in law and government. “Enlightenment comes in various forms, sometimes even by means of books. Indeed, his book might plausibly be claimed to be the most notable contribution to that tradition to have been published since Sidgwick and Mill. It is a convincing refutation, if one is needed, of any lingering suspicions that the tradition of English-speaking political philosophy might be dead. “ has elucidated a conception of justice which goes beyond anything to be found in Kant or Rousseau. It contains a new preface that helpfully outlines the major revisions, and a ‘conversion table’ that correlates the pagination of this edition with the original, which will be useful to students and scholars working with this edition and the extensive secondary literature on Rawls’s work. Originally published in 1971, it quickly became the subject of extensive commentary and criticism, which led Rawls to revise some of the arguments he had originally put forward in this work… This edition will certainly become the definitive one all scholars will use it, and it will be an essential text for any academic library.
“Rawls’s Theory of Justice is widely and justly regarded as this century’s most important work of political philosophy. ” -Marshall Cohen, New York Times Book Review
No higher achievement is open to a scholar. In making his peerless contribution to political theory, John Rawls has made a unique contribution to this urgent task. He also makes clear how wrong it was to claim, as so many were claiming only a few years back, that systematic moral and political philosophy are dead… Whatever else may be true it is surely true that we must develop a sterner and more fastidious sense of justice. “In his magisterial new work…John Rawls draws on the most subtle techniques of contemporary analytic philosophy to provide the social contract tradition with what is, from a philosophical point of view at least, the most formidable defense it has yet received… makes available the powerful intellectual resources and the comprehensive approach that have so far eluded antiutilitarians. ” -Scott Turow, New York Times Book Review (2013) “I don’t know of a more lucid articulation of the intuitions many of us share about what is just.
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