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The Idea of Justice (Paperback)
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The Idea of Justice (Paperback)
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From Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice
is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories of
justice. Is justice an ideal, for ever beyond our grasp, or
something that may actually guide our practical decisions and
enhance our lives? At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence
on the role of public reason in establishing what can make
societies less unjust. But there are always choices to be made
between alternative assessments of what is reasonable, and
competing positions can each be well defended. Rather than
rejecting these pluralities, we should use them to construct a
theory of justice that can accommodate divergent points of view.
Sen also inspiringly shows how the principles of justice in the
modern world must avoid parochialism and address vital questions of
global injustice. The breadth of vision, intellectual acuity and
striking humanity of one of the world's leading public
intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this
remarkable book. 'A major advance in contemporary thinking' John
Gray, Literary Review 'The most important contribution to the
subject since John Rawls's A Theory of Justice' Hilary Putnam,
Harvard University 'Sen writes with dry wit, a feel for history and
a relaxed cosmopolitanism ... a conviction that economists and
philosophers are in business to improve the world burns on almost
every page' Economist 'Sen's magisterial critique of the dominant
mode of liberal political philosophy confirms him as the
English-speaking world's pre-eminent public intellectual' New
Statesman Books of the Decade Amartya Sen is Lamont University
Professor at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998
and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His most
recent books are The Argumentative Indian, Identity and Violence
and Development as Freedom. His books have been translated into
thirty languages.
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