A Companion to Rawls

<p>Wide ranging and up to date, this is the single most comprehensive treatment of the most influential political philosopher of the 20th century, John Rawls.</p> <ul> <li> An unprecedented survey that reflects the surge of Rawls scholarship since his death, and the lively debates that have emerged from his work</li> <li>Features an outstanding list of contributors, including senior as well as “next generation” Rawls scholars</li> <li>Provides careful, textually informed exegesis and well-developed critical commentary across all areas of his work, including  non-Rawlsian perspectives</li> <li>Includes discussion of new material, covering Rawls’s work from the newly published undergraduate thesis to the final writings on public reason and the law of peoples</li> <li>Covers Rawls’s moral and political philosophy, his distinctive methodological commitments, and his relationships to the history of moral and political philosophy and to jurisprudence and the social sciences</li> <li>Includes discussion of his monumental 1971 book, <i>A Theory of Justice</i>, which is often credited as having revitalized political philosophy</li> </ul>