Product Description

Offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the philosophy behind that tradition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #196797 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 496 pages

Review
"A definitive and magnificent version of Rawls's teachings on the history of political philosophy." - Charles Larmore, New Republic "There is much quiet pleasure to be drawn from these pages, as well as a great deal of instruction about the terms in which Rawls came to frame his own ethical conceptions and the secular liberalism he believed them to imply. Anyone seriously interested in the development of Rawls's thinking and his sense of the relations between his approach and those of major predecessors in the history of Anglophone liberalism will find the insight it provides on numerous points indispensable." - John Dunn, Times Higher Education Supplement"

About the Author
John Rawls was James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. He was recipient of the 1999 National Humanities Medal. Samuel Freeman is Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Pennsylvania.

Customer Reviews

A brilliant resource.
I used this book for a politics module. I found John Rawls' explanations absolutely brilliant; as a history student I struggled with political theory, but Rawls has a way of making sense of the most complicated subjects. A detailed, yet concise and readable text, and massively enlightening about complicated political theories.