Reconstructing Rawls: The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness

by Robert S. Taylor

Book Overview

Reconstructing Rawls has one overarching goal: to reclaim Rawls for the Enlightenment--more specifically, the Prussian Enlightenment. Rawls's so-called political turn in the 1980s, motivated by a newfound interest in pluralism and the accommodation of difference, has been unhealthy for autonomy-based liberalism and has led liberalism more broadly toward cultural relativism, be it in the guise of liberal multiculturalism or critiques of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271037725
• ISBN13: 9780271037721
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"