The Cambridge Companion to Rawls

John Rawls is the most significant and influential moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly affected contemporary discussions of social political and economic justice in philosophy law political science economics and other social disciplines. In this collection of new 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.