Rawls's A Theory of Justice at 50

In 1971 John Rawls's A Theory of Justice transformed twentieth-century political philosophy and it ranks among the most influential works in the history of the subject. This volume of new essays marks the 50th anniversary of its publication with a multi-faceted exploration of Rawls's most important book. A team of distinguished contributors reflects on Rawls's achievement in essays on his relationship to modern political philosophy and 20th-century economic theory on his Kantianism on his transition to political liberalism on his account of public reason and contemporary challenges to it on his theory's implications for problems of racial justice on democracy and its fragility and on Rawls's enduring legacy. The volume will be valuable for students and scholars working in moral and political philosophy political theory legal theory and religious ethics.